Problems with drive

[Mayo Jordanov]

Hello,

I'm hitting some problems with a Toshiba drive (MK3263GSX).


When I boot from a cd during installation, it installs on it fine, and
there are no issues or errors on the consoles.
When it comes to booting from the drive, it's geometry is detected as
0 sectors, 0 heads, 0 cylynders, 0 mb and of course failts to boot.
(Geometry during install is correct). If I then boot off a cd or usb
and mount the drive, it works just fine, and everything from the
installation is on it, similarly copy to/from the drive is fine as
well.

I've had other OS installed on the drive (same system) no problem, and
it seems it's only having issues on FreeBSD during boot. Any ideas,
pointers? I don't know if it makes any difference, but the CD I
install from is a USB cdrom. I've also tried playing with ata
timeouts, but it didn't seem to help. There is no raid involved. I
have two machines like this, and both behave identically.

The errors from dmesg during boot are:
ad0: 0MB <TOSHIBA MK3263GSX FG020A> at ata0-master SATA150
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND> LBA=18446744073709551613
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND> LBA=18446744073709551613
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND> LBA=18446744073709551599
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND> LBA=18446744073709551612
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND> LBA=18446744073709551615
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND> LBA=18446744073709551553

Thank you,
Mayo Jordanov