On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:49:47PM -0700, Seth Hieronymus wrote: > > > The specs of the system are: > > > Soltek SL-k8TPro-939 (Via K8T800 Pro ATX) motherboard > > > AMD Athlon64 3800+ Newcastle 2.4GHz > > > Promise FastTrak 579 RAID Controller (PDC20579) > > > 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200 SATA 150 disks in RAID 1 > > > Re-badged Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP video card
> > One guess: what if you disable and disconnect your hard disk? This will > > be helpful to narrow down the issue... > Thanks for the response! What you suggested worked -- I removed the SATA > cables from both harddrives, and then was able to boot using the 7.0 BETA4 > AMD64 LiveFS cd. > Not sure it matters, but one interesting thing is that the motherboard also > has another SATA controller (irq 20 at device 15.0), which is: > atapci1: <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller> I've got two disks attached in RAID1 to the VIA 6420 controller. Works fine here (7.0-BETA3 FreeBSD amd64). Try connecting your disks to the via controller. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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