At 00:22 +0000 12/02/2003, Lee Harr wrote: >>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. >> > >>it hangs during kernel boot after the >>message: >> >>ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting >>ata0: resetting devices >> > >Yup. I have the same thing. > >What I do is go in to the BIOS and set the slave drive >from "Auto" to "None" when I want to boot from the first >drive, and switch it back when I want to boot from the >second drive. Kind of a pain, but it works...
Thanks - good idea. I have the drives in removable racks, so I've been unplugging ad1 when I want to boot 4.9. > >I think it's just symptomatic of the nforce2 chipset which >is only partially supported due to nvidia's refusal or >inability to release proper specs. There was a post about sending email to ASUS and/or NVidia to encourage them to share with the community. I'm ready. Now if I can only find that link/message again... (;-) tks j _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
