Hello I applied your advice. The problem was solved. Thank you very much
Also I saw your the site. it is a very good page. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ahmet Bulut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:36 AM Subject: Re: disk problem > Hi, > I had same problem while I installed FreeBSD5.4 on my machine. > Ata devices may behave erratically, particularly SATA devices. > Reported symptoms include command timeouts or missing interrupts. > > First, Install FreeBSD using safe mode. And than, > Disable ACPI and APIC using the ``safe mode'' of the bootloader. > hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 > hint.apic.0.disabled=1 > > If avaible, use the host's BIOS setup optios to put the ATA controller in > its 'legacy mode'. > > Ahmet > F.L > > > At 01:28 AM 11/30/2005, Yavuz Maslak wrote: > > >Hello > > > > > >I wanted to install freeBSD6.0 on my machine. formerly windows2000 > > >was running on it. But I could not install freebsd. Because it gave > > >an error about harddisk. > > > > > >My harddisk is Western Digital WD400 40Gbyte capacity. > > > > > >I got the error message on the screen as below > > > > > >ATA0_MASTER : FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY TIME OUT > > > > > >What shall I do ? > > > > Is your drive jumpered correctly? You will get that error if you > > have a drive jumpered as "slave" when there is no "master". > > > > -Glenn > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"