Try using the experimental universal livecd, released December 11, 2005.
The official 2005.1-r1 livecd wouldn't work for my motherboard + SATA
drive either.
You can also try booting with gentoo nodetect, and then try modprobing
sata_nv and your ethernet card.
Marcel Treis wrote:
Hi folks,
i have a problem with the following hardware components:
* MSI K8N Neo Platinum Motherboard (nVIDIA nForce 3 250Gb Chipset)
* Maxtor 7V300F0 Harddrive
I tried to install a 64-Bit Gentoo with the 2005.1 and 2005.1-r1 Discs,
but both come up with IO errors. I tried to turn ACIP, ACPI, and nearly
any fancy stuff off by means of boot parameters, but the errors still
keep coming.
Here's some some typical error messages: (while using fdisk)
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
ata4: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd0 host_stat 0x21
ata4: status=0xd0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
lost page write due to I/O error on sda
SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x977
ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x977
ata4: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0xd0 host_stat 0x21
ata4: status=0xd0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x977
ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x977
ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x977
ata4: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0xd0 host_stat 0x21
ata4: status=0xd0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
unable to read partition table
Can anybody help? Do you need any more Details?
Thanks in advance!
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