On 7/18/2013 8:49 AM, Glen Barber wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 08:49:39PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote:
today. I will most definitely report back any findings. Thanks for
your reply!
John, in addition to suggestions/replies from others, can you also try
the 10.0-CURRENT snapshot? In particular, if your problem continues
with a SATA drive, I am curious if the problem still exists in head/.
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/
Thanks.
Thanks to Glen and Steve and all those who replied to my initial
posting. I am quite pleased after having been "figuratively gone" from
(but still running) FreeBSD for coming up on 2 years (hey--when it's so
rock solid, it's easy when you don't have to ask questions :) that i can
come back to these lists and still find lots of people willing to help!
You guys (and gals) are awesome!
Anyway, it seems I have solved my problems with this new hardware. There
was really two issues I bumped into. After installing 9.1-R I saw this
"timeout" problem to ahcich1 device and it would "hang" for about 5
minutes then continue to boot. Then I tried 9.2-PRE but there the
keyboard was not recognized and I kept getting infinite "ugen0.2:
<Unknown> ..... (disconnected)" errors at the install screen. One person
said to fiddle in the BIOS with the USB settings. I went into the BIOS
and disabled "Intel USB 3.0 Mode" support (this is a very new
motherboard with USB 3.0). That fixed the issue! For those curious about
-current, I also tried to install that and it experienced the same USB
problems until I disabled this 3.0 mode.
Once I got past that and installed 9.2-PRE again, I let it timeout again
during boot. Then I looked at the dmesg output much more closely than I
could have during the boot from DVD. It turns out that I only THOUGHT it
was a timeout to the SSD. The Intel Series 520 SSD was NOT the issue. I
was getting a timeout on ahcich1 which from the dmesg output was my DVD
burner! The SSD was on ahcich5. The only difference here is that by
sheer happenstance, I connected the SSD to the SATA port owned by the
Intel Z87 (Lynx Point) controller. The DVD burner (which is probably 5
years old) was hooked to ASRock's own "ASMedia ASM1061" controller.
Apparently this controller doesn't play well with my older DVD burner. I
switched ports and put both on the Intel controller and BOOM! Success!
No timeouts, no funny business. Nothing. At this point i don't mind at
all turning off the USB 3.0 mode because I have yet to actually see a
3.0 device in the wild and I certainly won't own one anytime soon. :)
.... so it's kind of a moot point. I'm sure the USB developers will see
this problem and tackle it in time. I'm just thrilled to be booting on
this new H/W!
Thanks again to all on the list that replied!
-Jr
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