disk problem

[Ahmet Bulut]

Hi,
I had same problem while I installed FreeBSD5.4 on my machine.
Ata devices may behave erratically, particularly SATA devices.
Reported symptoms include command timeouts or missing interrupts.

First, Install FreeBSD using safe mode. And than,
Disable ACPI and APIC  using the ``safe mode'' of the bootloader.
hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
hint.apic.0.disabled=1

If  avaible, use the host's BIOS setup optios to put the ATA controller in
its 'legacy mode'.

Ahmet
F.L

> 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
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