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Date:      Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:20:04 -0400
From:      "matt donovan" <kitchetech@gmail.com>
To:        "Bernard Lecuire" <divers@lecuire.eu>
Cc:        freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Another No disks found during Install
Message-ID:  <28283d910809281720o3c50ba2atb2805534f184ab@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <48DFE650.2060002@lecuire.eu>
References:  <48A4A3B5.5040207@lecuire.eu> <1218753350.18585.14.camel@localhost> <48DFE650.2060002@lecuire.eu>

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On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Bernard Lecuire <divers@lecuire.eu> wrote:

>
> sergio lenzi a =E9crit :
>
>> Em Qui, 2008-08-14 =E0s 23:29 +0200, Bernard Lecuire escreveu:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I have a problem with the installation.
>>> I choose country, keyboard and then I can not continue installation,
>>> because it says "No disks found! Please verify that your disk controlle=
r
>>> is being..."
>>>
>>> Hardware: Acer Aspire M1641,Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180, nVidia GeFor=
ce
>>> 7050, sata-500
>>> Here is what i get during boot sequence:
>>>
>>> (...cut...)
>>> hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24 2008 10:34:18)
>>> (...cut...)
>>> atapci0: <nVidia nForce MCP73 UDMA133 controller> port
>>> 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 8.0 on pci0
>>> ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
>>> ata0: [ITHREAD]
>>> ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
>>> ata1: [ITHREAD]
>>> (...cut...)
>>>
>>> I tried to install without success FreeBSD 7.0, 8.0, OpenBSD, NetBSD, a=
nd
>>> 4-5 Linux distros.
>>> Anyone an idea?
>>> Bernard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> In my country (Brazil) you could go to the shop
>> before 7 days passed after you bought this "*%$$@"  and
>> change for a TRUE notebook ....  HP, Asus, toshiba, LG..  with no
>> questions asked...
>>
>> I think that ACER makes their hardware to work only for windows vista...=
.
>> and works very bad indeed...
>> please stay away from those "&#%###"
>> I do not see any good thing in ACER.....
>> 1) they do not care about customers,
>> 2) the main board is stripped down to a minimum
>> 3) the bios is "unique"  totally out of any convension and
>>    always buggy....
>> 4) the battery has fewer cells...
>> 5) the wireless is poor...
>>
>> Only the price is good... but compare it with a good notebook,
>> you will see that those 200 dollars less that you pay for an acer
>> is TOO expensive... Even using windows,  you will spend that more by the
>> time you
>> will need an  anti-virus + an office pack...
>>
>> In 6 more months, acer will drop down that line and you will
>> not find any replacement part of it... Like many things done
>> in asia, it is only a "toy"....
>> Want a good notebook??? buy an apple book... in an apple
>> store you can buy a good one for about 1200 dollars....
>> 13 inches, dual core, 1gb of memory 120gb of disk....
>> everything works... even Leopard....
>>
>>
>>
>> Sergio
>>
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>> Good diagnosis. I changed the motherboard (to Asus), and now it works!
> Bye
> Bernard
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Well some nForce boards FreeBSD doesn't like so that is why the error came
up



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