Install hangs with Toshiba 2.5" drive

[Robert Downes]

nullentropy at lineone.net wrote:
> Running FreeBSD 5.0 installer, I see a few messages along the lines of 
> "configured IRQ 3 is not in bitmap of irqs" and then the following pair 
> of lines:
> 
> ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices ..
> 
> And then the system seems to jam, the drive light still on, and no 
> further progress is made even after several minutes.

Solved it, thanks to the wisdom of the Web. A Google search and some 
luck led me to the nugget that disabling DMA mode for the IDE drive (and 
possibly disconnecting troublesome CD drives - but I didn't need to do 
that) would stop the boot jamming.

So I've successfully installed FreeBSD on one machine (with a CD drive) 
and run it on another (without).

Thank you to JJB and Joe for replying to me personally.
-- 
Bob