Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:27:16 +0300 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Carlos_Mendes_Luis?= <jonny@jonny.eng.br> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: After 6.0-RELEASE, still cannot find ATA disk com VIA8235 Message-ID: <cb5206420511101027s5f42f90cr9fd5215604b24f31@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43738789.4020805@jonny.eng.br> References: <43732EA0.5030000@jonny.eng.br> <cb5206420511100402s3f49fb0ye23e9ccf00a190c0@mail.gmail.com> <43738789.4020805@jonny.eng.br>
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On 11/10/05, Jo=E3o Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br> wrote: > Andrew P. wrote: > > > > Please, do some research (googling) before asking > > such questions, as they usually require much more > > info. > > I did, indeed, and found absolutely nothing. Do you have some info = I > don't? Please tell me. I just was annoyed that you didn't get the make of your IDE controller right. > > > > Your motherboard has VIA P4M266A chipset, carrying > > VT8233A on board. Ata(4) driver is not completely newhat, > > in 6.0, and it has supported this very IDE controller for > > some time already. Please consult your motherboard's > > I may be teorettically supported, but it is not working, and it is t= he only > operating system with problems. The errors in 5.4 led me to believe the > problems were related to some kind of timing, but could get no further fr= om this. > > I did even search google to see if any other soul related any usage = of > FreeBSD with this MoBo, just to find nothing. Or worse, to find other pe= ople > with the same problems: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-February/010211.h= tml > http://listas.es.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd/2005-September/026449.html > > I have even found one that say changing APIC would solve the problem= , but > this did not solve mine: > > I already did all this, and even disabled ACPI, which you did not > mentioned, but is almost always the big villain. May we get back to -sta= ble > now? Or did I miss something I should have done before getting out of > -questions? Maybe -hackers, and not -stable, since this is now like hack= ing to me. > > Or maybe the Hardware compatibility list shoud be changed to note thi= s MoBo > is incompatible with FreeBSD. > stable@ and current@ are for discussions specific to stable and current branches, which this issue is not. Try disconnecting the HDD, placing the CDROM on primary master and trying to boot, please.
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