On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:41:00PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Hi All, > > I recently tried to boot the FreeBSD 6.0 Beta #3 on my laptop, and ran into > a problem. > > The hard drive controller probes as: > > " > atapci0: <Intel ICH6 SATA150 contoller> port > 0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 17 at device 31.2 on > pci0 > ... > ad0: 57231MB <HTS726060M9AT100/MH40A6EA> [116280/16/63] at ata0-master > UDMA100 > " > > But I then get the following spewed out: > > " > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> > LBA=11721023 > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> LBA=0 > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> > LBA=11721022 > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> LBA=1 > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> > LBA=11721023 > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> LBA=0 > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> > LBA=11721017 > " > > Sysinstall cautions me that the Geometry for the drive is unlikely, and > that it's using a more sensible one (it displays 7296/255/63, with > 117210240 blocks). > > The drive itself is partitioned already (with a WinXP partition, and a > FreeBSD slice, from an older 5.x install) - however, sysinstall claims it > can't see any of that and the drive is all unused. > > The laptop itself is a Dell XPS Gen 2. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > -Karl > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > >
Try to disable ACPI - it can helps. There may be some problems with ACPI on your laptop - BIOS update sometime helps. But first try to disable ACPI during FreeBSD boot. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"