Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-12 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Christoph Kukulies schrieb: Hi, don't know whether it's the CDROM drive (a Creative 52x mx) or the motherboard (ASUS P4S8X) or what. Anyway, I tried to install a recent version of FreeBSD (7.1-BETA2) and the installation hangs right in the boot process of the installation CD disc1. I see

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-05 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Christoph Kukulies schrieb: Hi Al, thanks for pointing me to safe mode install. That I will probably try tomorrow. The day ended up in havoc: I tried to boot a floppy to do an ASUS BIOS upgrade and somehow messed with the power cable. A big flash occurred originating from the power supply. I

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-05 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Christoph Kukulies schrieb: Christoph Kukulies schrieb: Hi Al, thanks for pointing me to safe mode install. That I will probably try tomorrow. The day ended up in havoc: I tried to boot a floppy to do an ASUS BIOS upgrade and somehow messed with the power cable. A big flash occurred

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:26:38PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Christoph Kukulies schrieb: Christoph Kukulies schrieb: Hi Al, thanks for pointing me to safe mode install. That I will probably try tomorrow. The day ended up in havoc: I tried to boot a floppy to do an ASUS BIOS

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-05 Thread kuku
Jeremy Chadwick schrieb: acd0: FAILURE - READ BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x21 ascq=0x00 (asc=0x21 at this time FWIW). This won't help you get FreeBSD installed any quicker, but it will give you some insight to what the error messages mean. ATAPI essentially uses SCSI commands but over an

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-04 Thread Julien Cigar
I've this problem too on almost all my machines. The only solution I've found is to disable DMA (atapi_dma), but then performances are very poor (and I'm still unable to burn a CD/DVD) On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:03 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Hi, don't know whether it's the CDROM drive (a

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-04 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Julien Cigar schrieb: I've this problem too on almost all my machines. The only solution I've found is to disable DMA (atapi_dma), but then performances are very poor What I've found is enable/disable IDE Master in the BIOS settings. I disabled it to no avail. Just bought a SATA CD/DVD

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-04 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Christoph Kukulies schrieb: Julien Cigar schrieb: I've this problem too on almost all my machines. The only solution I've found is to disable DMA (atapi_dma), but then performances are very poor What I've found is enable/disable IDE Master in the BIOS settings. I disabled it to no avail.

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-04 Thread Al Plant
Julien Cigar wrote: I've this problem too on almost all my machines. The only solution I've found is to disable DMA (atapi_dma), but then performances are very poor (and I'm still unable to burn a CD/DVD) On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:03 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Hi, don't know whether it's

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-04 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Hi Al, thanks for pointing me to safe mode install. That I will probably try tomorrow. The day ended up in havoc: I tried to boot a floppy to do an ASUS BIOS upgrade and somehow messed with the power cable. A big flash occurred originating from the power supply. I opened the power supply,

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:13:34AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Julien Cigar wrote: I've this problem too on almost all my machines. The only solution I've found is to disable DMA (atapi_dma), but then performances are very poor (and I'm still unable to burn a CD/DVD) On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:03

7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-04 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Hi, don't know whether it's the CDROM drive (a Creative 52x mx) or the motherboard (ASUS P4S8X) or what. Anyway, I tried to install a recent version of FreeBSD (7.1-BETA2) and the installation hangs right in the boot process of the installation CD disc1. I see acd0: FAILURE - READ BIG

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-04 Thread Al Plant
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:13:34AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Julien Cigar wrote: I've this problem too on almost all my machines. The only solution I've found is to disable DMA (atapi_dma), but then performances are very poor (and I'm still unable to burn a CD/DVD) On Tue,

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:46:43PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:13:34AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Julien Cigar wrote: I've this problem too on almost all my machines. The only solution I've found is to disable DMA (atapi_dma), but then performances are

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-04 Thread Al Plant
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:46:43PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:13:34AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Julien Cigar wrote: I've this problem too on almost all my machines. The only solution I've found is to disable DMA (atapi_dma),