From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 13:34:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D9AD106566B for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:34:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za) Received: from a.mail.ru.ac.za (a.mail.ru.ac.za [IPv6:2001:4200:1010::25:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3188FC1D for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:34:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za) Received: from iwr.ru.ac.za ([146.231.64.249]:49386) by a.mail.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1K6mwK-0003lB-H5; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:34:08 +0200 Received: from iwr61.iwr.ru.ac.za ([146.231.64.161]) by iwr.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1K6mwK-000FmS-ER; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:34:08 +0200 From: "DA Forsyth" Organization: IWR To: Telpiz Sorin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:34:17 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <485141F9.31659.4E14366C@iwrtech.iwr.ru.ac.za> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <948245.61083.qm@web45811.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <948245.61083.qm@web45811.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: a.mail.ru.ac.za (146.231.129.33) Cc: Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: iwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:34:12 -0000 On 12 Jun 2008 , Telpiz Sorin entreated about "Installing FreeBSD": > =A0tried several times to install 7.0-RELEASE x amd64 on=A0my > friend's=A0machine that is eqiupped with hard drive manufactured by > Samsung. The hard drive (master) appears to have SATA interface, > nonetheless SYSINSTALL regognizes it as ad04! Besides, SYSINSTALL > complains about the disk's geometry=A0. The text console works very > slowly, though the machine=A0(ASUS motherboard) has 2 Gigs of RAM > and=A0a=A0good GeForce video board. For comparison, my old IBM machine ( > PentiumII , 128Mb RAM , 16Mb video memory ) runs Free BSD much more > faster. Could you help us fix the=A0trouble? Best regards and much > thanks. sorin at margelatto@yahoo.com=A0=A0=A0=A0 I had this with my Linux box at home. The solution is to change the CMOS setting for the drive mode to 'enhanced' (on my motherboard at any rate). If you use the compatibility mode then the chipset maps the SATA drives to the 'IDE' space and speed will be limited to somewhere around PIO4 (-: in my experience, sysinstall ALWAYS complains about geometry and I always just leave it and it always just works. YMMV -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/