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Subject: kern/17565: 4.0-RELEASE install does not access IDE drive
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>Number:         17565
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       4.0-RELEASE install does not access IDE drive
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 23 04:10:00 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Fred Heutte
>Release:        4.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
Sunlight Data Systems
>Environment:
ASUS ME-99B mobo, Celeron 466 MHz, 64 MB RAM
SiS 5591 ATA-33 controller
Award PNP BIOS 1.0A Extended
WD Caviar 2540 HD (540 MB)

>Description:
I have been testing installation of a firewall/NAT setup with this system; installation proceeded normally under 3.2-RELEASE (the CD-ROM with Greg Lehey's book).  Since 3.2 ports are no longer available online, and to take advantage of new features such as built-in openssh 1.2, I wanted to install 4.0-RELEASE.  However, after downloading the boot floppies and beginning the install, cannot access the hard drive.  System returns messages such as ad0: HARD READ ERROR, blk 0 status=59, error=04, primary partition table, error reading fsbn 0, etc.  Obviously installation fails at this point.

>How-To-Repeat:
Reinstalled with different hard drive, adjustments to BIOS settings (i.e., turn off "PNP OS" setting), etc.  As mentioned, system works normally with FreeBSD 3.2, Debian Linux 2.2, Windows NT (ssssh!) and, um, Windows 95.
>Fix:


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