Hi,
I just got a new Tyan S5350 using twin Xeon processors I am told this is now a very standard motherboard. Unfortunately when I try to boot FreeBSD 5.4 Release I get the following errors on the IDE/ATA/SATA connection. The errors I get during boot up are as follows: The hard disk is not recognised you get the error: Ata0_master: Failure ATAPI_IDENTITY timeout (x3) Then Ata1_master: Failure ATA_Identify timeout (x3) This is true if I use a standard IDE drive (160Gb) or a SATA drive (250Gb). The BIOS recognises the drives and is happy with them but the OS has this problem. The board appears to use the Intel 6300SEB chip set using for the IDE/ATA/SATA is it supported? Or is there a problem with my motherboard? The board we have is: http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigeri7320r_spec.html If anyone is using this motherboard successfully please let me know so I can organise a replacement. Any other help gratefully received. Alan Jay PS The rest of the machine specs are - twin Xeon processor; 4 Gb RAM; Intel Gigabit Network card in the PCI slot. 250Gb SATA drive. PPS Having looked around the lists there appear to be people who say this is related to the issues described 5.2.1 release errata (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/errata.html) PPPS loading in safe mode does work but it isn't a viable way to run a server anyone got any ideas why this occurs and how to work around it the ideas in the errata for 5.2.1 don't seem to work assuming that I have the syntax correct in the /boot/loader.comf _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
