i386/83214: FreeBSD 5.4 cannot install on IC35L120AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive

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>Number:         83214
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD 5.4 cannot install on IC35L120AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 10 10:50:00 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     h
>Release:        5.4
>Organization:
>Environment:
5.4 release
>Description:
FreeBSD 5.4 release cannot find this 100GB hard drive that eats both IDE naps just for itself.

Debian, currently installed, boots on it with lots of timeouts and the following messages:

Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro 
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
hda: IC35L120AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 241254720 sectors (123522 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:<4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
hda: DMA timeout error
hda: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
hda: DMA timeout error
hda: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
hda: DMA timeout error
hda: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
hda: DMA timeout error
hda: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
Adding 1951888k swap on /dev/hda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal

OpenBSD also installs and boots that hard drive with DMA timeouts, falling back to the compatible mode.

FreeBSD cannot install on the hard drive at all, because it cannot write on it.

I'd like to install FreeBSD on that machine but so far i'm stuck with Linux because of that problem.

>How-To-Repeat:
      Try to install 5.4 on that hard drive
>Fix:
      i wish
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: