From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 05:07:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 426B216A4D0 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 05:07:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jstep@unm.edu) Received: from unm.edu (f5vs2.unm.edu [64.106.76.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E0C43CA6 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 05:06:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jstep@unm.edu) X-PMX-Host: Regor X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' X-PMX-Version: 4.7.1.128075, Antispam-Engine: 2.3.0.0, Antispam-Data: 2006.12.5.201432 Received: from [68.127.246.21] (account jstep@unm.edu HELO [192.168.123.104]) by regor.unm.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTPSA id 55596722 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:07:01 -0700 Message-ID: <45764FDD.4030908@unm.edu> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:06:37 -0800 From: Josh Stephenson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FreeBSD SATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:07:03 -0000 I'm having trouble installing FreeBSD on the following system: Intel Desktop Board DG965SS motherboard Intel Core Duo 2.8GHz 1GB Memory 1 SATA hard-drive 1 dvd/cd-burner sony dru-120c Here's the problem: When I boot the install, I get: Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up ..... and then the system hangs at either this line: Interrupt storm detected on "irq17:"; throttling interrupt source or sometimes, I actually get into the install screen, but the response is ridiculously slow. ie- I press the down arrow, and 30 seconds later, it respons, but eventually it just hangs completely. Any help would be much appreciated. -josh