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Subject: Asus A7V133/4.2-R (fwd)
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hello there!

[ in case of answers from questions@, please, keep cc'ing me ]

I tried to install FreeBSD 4.2-R on a
Asus A7V133/Athlon Thunderbird 850MHz/Fujitsu MPE3136AH (udma/66),
and noticed the following:
the system installs and runs smoothly, when the hard disk is attached to
secondary (Promise UDMA100/RAID0) controller. When it's at primary
controller, it detects disk properly. But when it tries to write partition
data on it, it makes some tries like:
ad0: WRITE timeout tag=0
ata0: resetting devices .. done
and then panics with message `going nowhere without my init'.

Seems that new Asus A7V133 has broken primary IDE controller. Have anybody
met with something like this?

FYI: 3.5.1-R bootable CD does not boot at all - it dumps registers and
halts system.
FYI2: Windows ME installs and operates even when disk is installed as
primary master. Maybe it just silently downgrades from udma/66 to
something lower?

# Alexey





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