ATA Problem going from FreeBSd 5.3 Beta7 to 5.3 Release.

[Koen de Jonge]

Lapo Nustrini wrote:

> Hopefully this is the correct mailing list, if not, please let me know 
> a more suitable one.
>
> I'm setting up a Supermicro 1U server, (6014HX8B: dual Xeon, 2GB ram, 
> hot swappable scsi backplane, dual GB nics, etc...)
> I tried installing FBSD 5.3 release on it, but I received the 
> following error while booting:
>
>  ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out
>  ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out
>  ata1-master: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE timed out

For what it is worth, I had the exact same problem last week on a new 1u 
supermicro with dual Xeon and 6Gb ram.

Fortunately, I was just testing the install there, it was to become a 
Linux box. :)

Koen