I have the same problem with my asus p4s8x mobo on freebsd 4.9 and prior....If i disable dma the cd will boot.; 5.1 works correctly(with dma enabled). from the cases i've seen...they all include an ASUS motherboard... -aaron<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've got both 4.9 and 5.1 loaded on my new ASUS A7N8X Deluxe > with two 160Gb disks on the primary ATA controller. 5.1 does > much better handling both ATA disks. When I run 4.9 with the > second disk connected, it hangs during kernel boot after the > message: > > ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > ata0: resetting devices > > I've seen what looks like similar problems in the archives (e.g., > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?188200406.20031109073901). > It seems to happen on various motherboards and disk configurations. > I wanted to provide another datapoint for configurations. > > My 4.9 came from the CD image downloaded from the ftp site last > week (weds). 5.1 came from the subscription CD. > > The questions are: > 1. Has anyone gotten a similar configuration working on 4.9? > 2. Will it make a difference to CVSup? > > Thanks in advance! > j
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