VT 6421 setup probelm

[Patrick Bowen]

Bjoern Wolfgardt wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am very new to FreeBSD. So pls be patient.
> I try to install FreeBSD 6.1 on my Amilo 3438G. It has a VIA VT 6421 inside. I have 2 80GB HDs configured as Raid0. I have one partition (80GB) with Windows XP SP2.
> Now I want to install FreeBSD 6.1 as second boot option. While booting the Setup I can see that FreeBSD recognize 2 HDs (ad4 and ad6).
> The Log indicates that there are problems with these drives (which my Windows and the VIA Tool do not recognize).  FreeBSD seems to have problems reading DMA (READ_DMA Timeout,.....). But after this I come to sysinstall. I choose custom Installation and Partition. I have 3 drives (ad4, ad6, ar0). If I select ar0 it is totaly unused. ad6 reports: A geometry of 155061/16/63 is incorrect....
> Also ad6 is unused. ad4 reports the same problem. But in ad4 I can see my NTFS partition (ad4s1).
>  
> any ideas? thx in advance
> Bjoern
>  
>  
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Bjoern;

I had the same msg with a 60G Hitachi on a Gateway. The msg went on to 
say it was using more reasonable values, so I went ahead with the 
install, and it works fine. See what happens.

Patrick