ATA problem installing on Vaio

[Lamont Lucas]

Ha, I was just posting a similar problem.  I got past that by running
the patch at the bottom of:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-i386/2003-September/000325.html

then remaking the ISOs.  That let me at least install freebsd, but
I can't get it to boot.  However, I suspect my problems are related to
my attempting to keep a dual boot install and putting freebsd way high
up on the disk.  Your mileage may vary.

If you'd like I can send you a link to my 4.9-stable+patches miniinst
iso.  

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:30:13AM +0000, Richard Tobin wrote:
> I tried to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a Sony Vaio PCG-TR1MP.  It hangs
> during boot (requiring a power-cycle) after printing:
> 
>  ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded
>  pccard: card inserted, slot 0
>  ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
>  ata0 resetting devices ..
> 
> I found several references to similar problems, but no solution.
> 
> The same happens with the 4.8 install CD.
> 
> -- Richard
> 
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 - Lamont
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