4.{8,9,10} Install ad0 READ command error
I can't install 4.X on a couple of identical new machines. They both exhibit the same problem, and it's consistant, so it's probably not bad hardware, though perhaps weird hardware. Also, 5.2 does install, but these are to be production machines at a remote location so I'd really rather be running something long in the tooth. I've googled and looked at the FBDS mailing lists and here and have found some similar sounding reports, but no fix. I need to make a decision on these machines for next week, and if I can't bring myself to go with 5.X I may have to try linux, so if anyone can come up with a way forward with 4.X in the next day or two it would be a really Good Thing:-). OK, details: The disk is there, visible and will boot (to DOS in one case, to FBSD 5.2 in the other). I boot from CD and it goes through the normal sequence to boot the install kernel until it looks at the hard disk (copied from a screen on the other end of the room, so excuse typoes/brainoes): ad0 sucess setting WDMA2 on SIS chip Creating disk ad0 ad0 READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 resetting ... ata0 resetting devices And then nothing for as close to forever as I have been prepared to wait. The motherboard is an ASRock KS41 Chipset:SIS 741 + SIS 963L Athalon 2400+ Can't think of anything else relevent. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _O_ | ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.{8,9,10} Install ad0 READ command error
On Fri, 21 May 2004 11:57:07 +0100 (BST) Richard Caley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then nothing for as close to forever as I have been prepared to wait. The motherboard is an ASRock KS41 Chipset:SIS 741 + SIS 963L Athalon 2400+ Can't think of anything else relevent. HDD model and firmware version would be useful. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.{8,9,10} Install ad0 READ command error
The motherboard is an ASRock KS41 Chipset:SIS 741 + SIS 963L Athalon 2400+ HDD model and firmware version would be useful. The HDD is a maxtor 6Y080P0 The BIOS is AMI and identifies itself as K7S41 P1.10. As a matter of interest, I have had a very similar problem on a mini-PC which I had put down to a hardware fault, but maybe there is a new(ish) motherboard chipset out there which 4.X can't cope with but 5.X can? If it is of any relevance/use, 4.5-RELEASE does manage to boot as far as the installer, and locks up on Probing Devices. The only symptom under 5.2 is the disk geometry warning at the start of partitioning which I have recieded in more or less every FBSD installation for the past couple of years. Someone really should rewrite that, since it seems impossible not to get it, and doesn't actually seem to indicate a problem. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _O_ | ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.{8,9,10} Install ad0 READ command error
On Fri, 21 May 2004 14:20:42 +0100 (BST) Richard Caley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The motherboard is an ASRock KS41 Chipset:SIS 741 + SIS 963L Athalon 2400+ HDD model and firmware version would be useful. The HDD is a maxtor 6Y080P0 The BIOS is AMI and identifies itself as K7S41 P1.10. FYI on a VIA 8237 this Maxtor woks ad0: Maxtor 6Y120L0/YAR41BW0 ATA-7 disk at ata0-master But of course this means nothing ;-/ I've had problems with identical HDD but different firmware versions. Did you tried with another HDD ? Does the HDD work on another mobo ? As a matter of interest, I have had a very similar problem on a mini-PC which I had put down to a hardware fault, but maybe there is a new(ish) motherboard chipset out there which 4.X can't cope with but 5.X can? This could be possible due to acpi support in 5.x; but of course it can happen also the other way. Did you tried to boot with acpi disable ? -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.{8,9,10} Install ad0 READ command error
Did you tried with another HDD ? Does the HDD work on another mobo ? Don't really want to mess with the hardware too much. These are supposed to be identical machines to deliver quickly to a customer as a stop-gap. I'll try with a spare HD this evening, but basicly I just want to get something going on these machines as is as soon as possible, so unless someonone somewhere has a brilliant idea I'll flip a coin between the pain fo Linux and the worry of 5.2. This could be possible due to acpi support in 5.x; but of course it can happen also the other way. Did you tried to boot with acpi disable ? Can I do that from the 4.X install CD? Everything seems to be disabled in the BIOS, not that there is much. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _O_ | ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.{8,9,10} Install ad0 READ command error
On Fri, 21 May 2004 15:16:56 +0100 (BST) Richard Caley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you tried with another HDD ? Does the HDD work on another mobo ? Don't really want to mess with the hardware too much. These are supposed to be identical machines to deliver quickly to a customer as a stop-gap. I'll try with a spare HD this evening, but basicly I just want to get something going on these machines as is as soon as possible, so unless someonone somewhere has a brilliant idea I'll flip a coin between the pain fo Linux and the worry of 5.2. Hmm, that is a way to go; if you do it, get a dmesg from it and post it on current@ it might help. This could be possible due to acpi support in 5.x; but of course it can happen also the other way. Did you tried to boot with acpi disable ? Can I do that from the 4.X install CD? Everything seems to be disabled in the BIOS, not that there is much. Nop, I was speaking about 5.x. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
