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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:29:22 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Seth Hieronymus <shieronymus@gmail.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, delphij@delphij.net
Subject:   Re: Instant Reboot with 7.0 BETA4 LifeFS Disk
Message-ID:  <20071228002922.GA75879@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <70d306230712271549j1fc5c31dm3a8d5acc04871c9e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <70d306230712240855j3ecd0000w7a7f87cadc15652a@mail.gmail.com> <47743135.50103@delphij.net> <70d306230712271549j1fc5c31dm3a8d5acc04871c9e@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:49:47PM -0700, Seth Hieronymus wrote:

> > > The specs of the system are:
> > > Soltek SL-k8TPro-939 (Via K8T800 Pro ATX) motherboard
> > > AMD Athlon64 3800+  Newcastle 2.4GHz
> > > Promise FastTrak 579 RAID Controller (PDC20579)
> > > 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200 SATA 150 disks in RAID 1
> > > Re-badged Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP video card

> > One guess: what if you disable and disconnect your hard disk?  This will
> > be helpful to narrow down the issue...

> Thanks for the response!  What you suggested worked -- I removed the SATA
> cables from both harddrives, and then was able to boot using the 7.0 BETA4
> AMD64 LiveFS cd.

> Not sure it matters, but one interesting thing is that the motherboard al=
so
> has another SATA controller (irq 20 at device 15.0), which is:
> atapci1: <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller>

I've got two disks attached in RAID1 to the VIA 6420 controller. Works
fine here (7.0-BETA3 FreeBSD amd64). Try connecting your disks to the
via controller.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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