From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 7:41:33 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 DE95237B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:41:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mrburns.nildram.co.uk (mrburns.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0C943F75 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from David.Larkin@djl.co.uk) Received: from djl.co.uk (nat.djl.co.uk [213.208.117.42]) by mrburns.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16521E3B91; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:39:33 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3E3A9928.2AF88190@djl.co.uk> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:41:29 +0000 From: David Larkin Organization: D.J.L. Software Consultancy Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, dirkx@webweaving.org Subject: Re: CD installation problem References: <3E390078.22787FA1@djl.co.uk> <15929.16587.323642.153154@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Mike Meyer wrote: > 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. > Wasn't that , but thanks for the tip ;-) Changed CDROM now all ok. > > -- > Mike Meyer 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