Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 19:54:55 -0800 From: J S Goldberg <jsg@san.rr.com> To: Lee Harr <missive@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9 ATA hangs with 2 ata drives Message-ID: <p05210612bbf1bbfb517c@[192.168.27.23]> In-Reply-To: <BAY2-F141VYl4maEqxG000007e1@hotmail.com> References: <BAY2-F141VYl4maEqxG000007e1@hotmail.com>
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At 00:22 +0000 12/02/2003, Lee Harr wrote: >>I've got both 4.9 and 5.1 loaded on my new ASUS A7N8X Deluxe >>with two 160Gb disks on the primary ATA controller. >> > >>it hangs during kernel boot after the >>message: >> >>ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting >>ata0: resetting devices >> > >Yup. I have the same thing. > >What I do is go in to the BIOS and set the slave drive >from "Auto" to "None" when I want to boot from the first >drive, and switch it back when I want to boot from the >second drive. Kind of a pain, but it works... Thanks - good idea. I have the drives in removable racks, so I've been unplugging ad1 when I want to boot 4.9. > >I think it's just symptomatic of the nforce2 chipset which >is only partially supported due to nvidia's refusal or >inability to release proper specs. There was a post about sending email to ASUS and/or NVidia to encourage them to share with the community. I'm ready. Now if I can only find that link/message again... (;-) tks j
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