ATA problems with FreeBSD 5.4

[João Carlos Mendes Luis]

Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny at jonny.eng.br> writes:
> 
> 
>>kernel sends some messages, "ata0-master: failure - ATA_IDENTIFY timed 
>>out", "ata0-master: failure - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out", and them no hard 
>>disk is identified, so I cannot install the system.  If I boot from a 
>>pre-installed hard disk, its even worse, after these message, I get a 
> 
> 
> I've started experiencing the same here, occasionally on reboot, but
> only after I have upgraded to 5.4-STABLE on June 21. Before, I haven't

I'm not totally sure, But IIRC, it also happened with the 5.3-RELEASE 
install CD.  It was the first CD I have tried, and when it failed, I got 
the more recent one.  Only after this one failed I started deeper tests 
to be sure about the flaw.

> seen that issue. In a similar situation to yours, Windows XP here has no
> problems so I don't assume it's hardware related. (And, when it actually
> boot, the problem doesn't seem occur anymore then while the system is
> up.) I'm now hesitating to update other machines because of that, hope
> it gets identified (and fixed) soon.
> 
> mkb.