From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 30 7:12:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A237637B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:12:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DAEE43F75 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:12:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1044371532.890838@mired.org) Received: (qmail 54223 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2003 15:12:12 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 30 Jan 2003 15:12:12 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15929.16587.323642.153154@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:12:11 -0600 To: David Larkin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, dirkx@webweaving.org Subject: Re: CD installation problem In-Reply-To: <3E390078.22787FA1@djl.co.uk> References: <3E390078.22787FA1@djl.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <3E390078.22787FA1@djl.co.uk>, David Larkin typed: > I was wondering if any subscibers to this list recognise the > following problem. > > I just purchased 2 identical machines and I am looking to install 4.7 > from CD. [...] > It then formats the hard disk ok, but reports > > acd0: TEST_UNIT_READY command timeout - resetting > ata1: resetting devices .. done > ( The message repeats itself many times.) > > finally it gives up and gives error message > > Error mounting /dev/acd0c on dist Input/Output Error(5) > > Any ideas why it should boot from CD, but not then recognise it ? I'm taking a shot in the dark, but is the CD on the secondary controller as a slave, and there's no master on that controller? That configuration causes problems for FreeBSD. I'm not sure it would cause the timeouts you are seeing, but it does cause FreeBSD to fail to recognize drives. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message