On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:25:39PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: > > > yes, the hardware is perfect.
You mention in your original post that you feel like somehow the "ata" just went bad in some way or another. Just to isolate this to a FreeBSD software issue have you tried booting to, say, a Knoppix live-cd and mounting the CD. Seems to me that if it works under one of the Linux live-cds that you can pretty much narrow it down to something with FreeBSD and/or it's interaction with your particular hardware. Nathan
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