On 6/23/05, Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >kernel sends some messages, "ata0-master: failure - ATA_IDENTIFY timed > >out", "ata0-master: failure - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out", and them no hard > >disk is identified, so I cannot install the system. If I boot from a > >pre-installed hard disk, its even worse, after these message, I get a > > I've started experiencing the same here, occasionally on reboot, but > only after I have upgraded to 5.4-STABLE on June 21. Before, I haven't > seen that issue. In a similar situation to yours, Windows XP here has no > problems so I don't assume it's hardware related. (And, when it actually > boot, the problem doesn't seem occur anymore then while the system is > up.) I'm now hesitating to update other machines because of that, hope > it gets identified (and fixed) soon. >
Hmmm. I encountered this one time on the laptop I upgraded to 5.4-RELEASE (not -STABLE) a few weeks ago, although I had booted the system several times prior to that with no problems. It got part way throught the boot then started throwing that error message. I powered down the system and tried again and it worked ok.
Because I had installed a new hard drive as part of the upgrade, and the error actually happened the first time I rebooted the system from Windows to FreeBSD (dual boot system), and it was also the first time I booted it with my wireless card using the NDIS wrapper, I came to no conclusion about the proximate cause other than to hope that my new hard drive was not defective.
I have booted the system (warm and cold, and reboot from Windows) at least a dozen times since, and it has not repeated.
Given your experience, I am beginning to suspect that this is a race condition that is more likely to hit some systems than others. I've had other problems with the NDIS driver wrapper, but since you aren't using it, I guess it likely isn't the cause of this issue.
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