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  1. April 5th, 2005, 11:27 AM #1
    princesheril
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    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.
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  2. April 5th, 2005, 03:49 PM #2
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    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?
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  3. April 5th, 2005, 10:03 PM #3
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    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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  4. April 6th, 2005, 12:25 AM #4
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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.
    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.
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  6. April 6th, 2005, 12:43 AM #5
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    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...
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  7. April 6th, 2005, 08:24 AM #6
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    well i changed my hdd from samsung to seagate (40gb)
    still no luck !!
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  8. April 6th, 2005, 09:01 AM #7
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    What's the brand/model of your mainboard?
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