From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 18:30:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A2C1065684 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:30:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from David.Boyd@insightbb.com) Received: from mxsf01.insightbb.com (mxsf01.insightbb.com [74.128.0.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 034A58FC2B for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:30:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from David.Boyd@insightbb.com) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,471,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="549850402" Received: from unknown (HELO asav00.insightbb.com) ([172.31.249.124]) by mxsf01.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 23 Oct 2008 14:01:55 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuEFADNZAElKgYMj/2dsb2JhbACKDopirTsHg0c X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,471,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="58723346" Received: from 74-129-131-35.dhcp.insightbb.com (HELO sneezy) ([74.129.131.35]) by asav00.insightbb.com with SMTP; 23 Oct 2008 14:01:55 -0400 From: "David Boyd" To: Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:01:55 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Importance: Normal Subject: Promise SX4060 on 7.1-BETA2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:30:30 -0000 I am attempting to install 7.1-BETA2 (from CD) onto a PC with a Promise SX4060 RAID controller and two Seagate 120GB ATA disk drives. The boot from CD keeps repeating the following (error) messages: (I'm retyping here) ============================================================================ ================== ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE task queue timeout - completing request directly ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE task queue timeout - completing request directly ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE task queue timeout - completing request directly ad4: WARNING - SET_MULTI task queue timeout - completing request directly ad4: FAILURE - READ timed out LBA=0 ad4: FAILURE - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=0 ad4: FAILURE - READ timed out LBA=0 ad4: FAILURE - READ retrying (0 retries left) LBA=0 ad4: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE timed out ad4: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE timed out ad4: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE timed out ad4: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET_MULTI timed out ad4: 114473MB at ata2-master PIO4 ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE task queue timeout - completing request directly ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE task queue timeout - completing request directly ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE task queue timeout - completing request directly ad8: WARNING - SET_MULTI task queue timeout - completing request directly ad8: FAILURE - READ timed out LBA=0 ad8: FAILURE - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=0 ad8: FAILURE - READ timed out LBA=0 ad8: FAILURE - READ retrying (0 retries left) LBA=0 ad8: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE timed out ad8: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE timed out ad8: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE timed out ad8: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET_MULTI timed out ad8: 114473MB at ata4-master PIO4 ============================================================================ ================== and then these messages (and minor variants) keep repeating (I've let it go for at least one hour). I have about three dozen of these computers (from a failed M$ project) and would very much like to use them with FreeBSD. Any ideas? I'm game for almost anything. Thanks.