disk problem

[Glenn Dawson]

At 01:28 AM 11/30/2005, Yavuz Maslak wrote:
>Hello
>
>I wanted to install freeBSD6.0 on my machine. formerly windows2000 
>was running on it. But I could not install freebsd. Because it gave 
>an error about harddisk.
>
>My harddisk is Western Digital WD400  40Gbyte capacity.
>
>I got the error message on the screen as below
>
>ATA0_MASTER : FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY TIME OUT
>
>What shall I do ?

Is your drive jumpered correctly?  You will get that error if you 
have a drive jumpered as "slave" when there is no "master".

-Glenn