7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

[Christoph Kukulies]

Hi Al,

thanks for pointing me to safe mode install. That I will probably try 
tomorrow.
The day ended up in havoc: I tried to boot a floppy to do an ASUS BIOS 
upgrade and somehow messed with the power cable.
A big flash occurred originating from the power supply. I opened the 
power supply, found a blown fuse, ran to the electronics store, bought a 
new fuse (+ one in reserve), inserted the fuse, tried the power supply, 
with connections off and a firework, prematurely - your presidential 
elections aren't finished yet - , developed in front of my face. Will 
continue tomorrow, when America has a new president.


--
Christoph

Al Plant schrieb:
> Julien Cigar wrote:
>> I've this problem too on almost all my machines. The only solution I've
>> found is to disable DMA (atapi_dma), but then performances are very poor
>> (and I'm still unable to burn a CD/DVD)
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:03 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> don't know whether it's the CDROM drive (a Creative 52x mx) or the 
>>> motherboard (ASUS P4S8X) or what.
>>> Anyway, I tried to install a recent version of FreeBSD (7.1-BETA2) 
>>> and the installation
>>> hangs right in the boot process of the installation CD disc1.
>>>
>>> I see
>>>
>>> acd0: FAILURE - READ BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00
>>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for 
>>> xpt_config
>>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for 
>>> xpt_config
>>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for 
>>> xpt_config
>>>
>>> and so on.
>>>
>>> Any clues?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Christoph Kukulies
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>
> Aloha,
>
> I have had similiar happen on 7 and 8 Freebsd installs recently.
>
> If you install using safe mode it will work. Then in /boot/loader.conf
>
> #boot/loader.conf
> hw.ata.ata-dma=0
> hw.ata.atapi_dma=0
>
> This makes the HD and CD to  work for me after the install.
>
> The error that comes up when you burn a CD seems to be bogus as I have 
> used the CD's with out error for installing on other boxes.
>
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