Re: FreeBSD 9.0 and (Kingspec) PATA drive ATA status errors. Drive unusable.

2012-08-12 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 12:42 -0400, Wajih Ahmed wrote: > Ok at the boot loader prompt i did as you suggested > > set hint.ata.0.mode="UDMA33" > > And that change did take effect as evedint by > >ada0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, PIO 512bytes) > > Unfortunately i still get the e

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 and (Kingspec) PATA drive ATA status errors. Drive unusable.

2012-08-12 Thread Wajih Ahmed
Ok at the boot loader prompt i did as you suggested set hint.ata.0.mode="UDMA33" And that change did take effect as evedint by ada0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, PIO 512bytes) Unfortunately i still get the error .ATA status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR), error: 84 (ICRC ABRT)

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 and (Kingspec) PATA drive ATA status errors. Drive unusable.

2012-08-12 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 12:29 -0400, Wajih Ahmed wrote: > Thank you. I'll try it out. One question though. How do i modify the > loader.conf on the usb image from which i am booting? Is there somethign i > can change in the boot loader? If this is RTFM kindly point me to it. You can enter the v

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 and (Kingspec) PATA drive ATA status errors. Drive unusable.

2012-08-12 Thread Wajih Ahmed
Thank you. I'll try it out. One question though. How do i modify the loader.conf on the usb image from which i am booting? Is there somethign i can change in the boot loader? If this is RTFM kindly point me to it. On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sun, 2012-08-12 at

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 and (Kingspec) PATA drive ATA status errors. Drive unusable.

2012-08-12 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 10:57 -0400, Wajih Ahmed wrote: > I have a Dell D420 laptop with the ZIF interface and uses a 1.8" PATA > drive. I purchased a Kingspec 16GB SSD and installed it. The BIOS > recogonizes the drive. I am using the USB image to boot in verbose mode. > Upon boot the disk is rec