disk problem

[Yavuz Maslak]

Hello

I applied your advice. The problem was solved.
Thank you very much

Also I saw your the site. it is a very good page.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ahmet Bulut" <ahmet.bulut at ihlas.net.tr>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: disk problem


> 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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