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Date:      Fri, 21 May 2004 16:44:21 +0300
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro>
To:        Richard Caley <rjc@interactive.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.{8,9,10} Install ad0 READ command error
Message-ID:  <20040521164421.219f2b2a@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
In-Reply-To: <200405211320.i4LDKgMV027013@pele.r.caley.org.uk>
References:  <20040521140927.10924c7a@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <200405211320.i4LDKgMV027013@pele.r.caley.org.uk>

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On Fri, 21 May 2004 14:20:42 +0100 (BST)
Richard Caley <rjc@interactive.co.uk> 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 ?



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