prob in installing freebsd

i just got the latest freebsd 5.3 & started installing it.
The system booted with the cd and a series of things appeared (including saturn "the red guy") on the screen until it got hanged up.
I dont know what to do.
The last two lines that appeared after which the system hanged were:

ado: WARNING - READ_DMA interrupt was seen but timeout fired LBA = 78165297
ado: WARNING - READ_DMA interrupt was seen but taskqueue stalled LBA = 78165297

I've tried using ATA100 instead of the ATA66 in my motherboard, but iti too didn't helped.

please suggest what to do.
thanks.

That's probably ad0 (with a null) not ado (with an O). Hmm. Drive itself may be at fault here. Or the controller... Not sure..
Saturn?!? Ah. You mean Beasty ;)

What brand/type of motherboard do you have?
What size is the harddisk?
Done any overclocking?

Yes I was having a very simmilar problem. All I did was I went and picked up a new harddisk. I got a WD 80 gb 7200 rmp with 8mb cache and it worked wonderfully. It could be because your hardisk is not supported and freeBSD for a fact supports WD. If your HD is a Maxtor you can run into many problems. FreeBSD did not like my maxtor lol.

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Originally posted here by Tekron-X
If your HD is a Maxtor you can run into many problems. FreeBSD did not like my maxtor lol.

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I've had several systems running fbsd on maxtor hds. I don't believe the brand of the drive was an issue. I do consider the size of the drive to be important. It might be too big and not supported by the Mobo/BIOS. Perhaps a BIOS upgrade is able to fix that. Perhaps the controller is too old. I had an 'old' p2 board that chocked on a 80GB hd. Bios upgrade fixed it. There was a time when 200GB disk storage was only reserved for the happy few. It seems "normal" now.

I'm with dice on this one... I HIGHLY doubt the brand had ANYTHING to do with it, but problems with the actual hard drive dfeinitly could have an effect though...

well i changed my hdd from samsung to seagate (40gb)
still no luck !!

What's the brand/model of your mainboard?