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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2001 10:03:04 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Rink Springer" <rink@springer.cx>
Cc:        overby@ntr.net, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with FreeBSD 4.3 on my Asus A7V-E board 
Message-ID:  <17722.989827384@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 May 2001 09:59:29 %2B0200." <001501c0dc4b$cf18a290$020010ac@aurum> 

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Make sure the cable is not plugged the wrong way into your CD...

In message <001501c0dc4b$cf18a290$020010ac@aurum>, "Rink Springer" writes:
>Odd is, whenever I pull the IDE cable of the CD-RW drive loose, it works
>like a charm! I haven't had these problems under Windows or anything!
>
>Does anyone know what's going on?
>
>--Rink
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <overby@ntr.net>
>To: <rink@springer.cx>
>Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 12:16 AM
>Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD 4.3 on my Asus A7V-E board
>
>
>> > I've got a problem with FreeBSD 4.3 on my Asus A7V-E motherboard with an
>> > Athlon 1.1GHz on it. FreeBSD seems to crash whenever it's about to probe
>my
>> > second CD drive. My setup is like this:
>>
>> > Primary IDE -> Maxtor 20GB harddisk, UDMA66 (with appropriate cable)
>> > Secondary IDE -> Philips 40x CD-ROM (Master) and HP CD-Writer 9100e
>(Slave).
>>
>> A have an Asus A7V133 + Athlon 900mhz.  It locks up when it tries to probe
>> my Sony 14E CD-RW.  The driver issues an INQUIRY BIG command, the drive
>> does not respond, the bus is reset and then FreeBSD hangs.  That's a lot
>like
>> what you saw, allthough not identical.
>>
>> I haven't solved the problem yet.  I tried dropping my CPU speed to
>500mhz,
>> but the board wouldn't come up at all when I did that.
>>
>> If you do find a solution, I'd like to hear about it!
>>
>> Glen Overby
>>
>>
>
>
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