Hi John, On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 05:45:29PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > Hello all, I have some feedback for the recently prepared snapshot > of 9.2-RELEASE. > > I've been trying like crazy to get the 9x series code installed on a > brand new workstation I'm building. It consists of a brand new > ASRock motherboard and haswell i7-4770k processor, Z87 chipset. I > tried at first to install 9.1-RELEASE. it worked (after I learned a > bit about the new installer--I have used FreeBSD "forever" but have > been "out of it" in terms of this list and other going's on for > about a year due to workload), but upon booting I was getting > "timeout" errors > > ahcich0: Timeout on slot xx port 0 > ahcich0: is 000000000 cs 00000000 ss e0000000 rs e0000000 tfd 40 > serr 00000000 cmd 0004df17 > > to the SSD that I used as the primary hard drive. So, then I figured > I would try a more recent snapshot hoping that something had been > spotted and fixed already. I got the 9.2-PRERELEASE amd64 snapshot > and tried to install it. However, I couldn't even get past the first > screen of the install because of these messages: > > ugen0.2: (Unknown) at usbus0 (disconnected) > uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device > > and the keyboard was non-functional. It just sat there spewing these > errors about 1 per second. > > So, even though I'm having some sort of ahci "timeout" issue with > this hardware and 9.1-RELEASE, it certainly appears that something > has zig-zagged in the usb stack in this 9.2-PRELEASE snapshot > because I can't even get through the install program. :(. Same > hardware, same everything. > > I also tried the 9.2-PRELEASE i386 snapshot for giggles. Same result. > > The final blow to my sanity was when I rolled back and tried to > install 8.4-RELEASE and sysinstall couldn't make the disk devices > after I hit 'W' in the disk label editor to commit my changes. So, > I'm wondering generically are people having problems with SSD's in > FreeBSD? In this hardware I have not tried using a traditional SATA > disk yet. > > But just thought I would report that 9.2-PRERELEASE can't even get > through install on this H/W where 9.1 could......... >
Do you have a SATA drive you can try with this hardware? It would be useful to know if that works, or same errors, etc. Glen
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