From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 28 03:32:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A2A16A41F for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 03:32:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lramos3@satx.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F058F43D48 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 03:32:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lramos3@satx.rr.com) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (cpe-66-69-40-1.satx.res.rr.com [66.69.40.1]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j6S3W8e1007847 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:32:09 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <42E851A6.1050309@satx.rr.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:31:50 -0500 From: luis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:52:24 +0000 Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 + DELL CERC SATA 1.5/6ch PCI card (Adaptec) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 03:32:12 -0000 I recently bought a Dell SC 1420 server, single Xeon 2.8GhZ CPU, 512MB memory, WD 40GB SATA drive, embedded dual channel SATA controller > and so far have failed to install FreeBSD. I have tried 5.4, 5.3, 4.4 > and after recognizing the drive installation has always stopped at > "Waiting 15 secs for scsi drives to settle". I even tried Mandrake 10 > and it stalls on hard disk driver installation. I then disconnected the > SATA drive, connected an IDE drive and the system still halted at the > same spot. I have tried to load the aac module but a message early in > the boot process states that it was not initialized. I have done a > search in google, WD's website, FreeBSD mailing lists and so far no > luck. What other information do I need to gather in order to solve this > problem? As a last resort I tried and installed succesfully Windows 98. I'm hoping that you'll be able to help me with this installation. Thank you very much for your help. Luis