Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

Hi Al,

thanks for pointing me to safe mode install. That I will probably try tomorrow.
The day ended up in havoc: I tried to boot a floppy to do an ASUS BIOS upgrade and somehow messed with the power cable.
A big flash occurred originating from the power supply. I opened the power supply, found a blown fuse, ran to the electronics store, bought a new fuse (+ one in reserve), inserted the fuse, tried the power supply, with connections off and a firework, prematurely - your presidential elections aren't finished yet - , developed in front of my face. Will continue tomorrow, when America has a new president.


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Christoph

Al Plant schrieb:
Julien Cigar wrote:
I've this problem too on almost all my machines. The only solution I've
found is to disable DMA (atapi_dma), but then performances are very poor
(and I'm still unable to burn a CD/DVD)

On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:03 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
Hi,

don't know whether it's the CDROM drive (a Creative 52x mx) or the motherboard (ASUS P4S8X) or what.
Anyway, I tried to install a recent version of FreeBSD (7.1-BETA2) and the installation
hangs right in the boot process of the installation CD disc1.

I see

acd0: FAILURE - READ BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for xpt_config

and so on.

Any clues?

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Christoph Kukulies
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Aloha,

I have had similiar happen on 7 and 8 Freebsd installs recently.

If you install using safe mode it will work. Then in /boot/loader.conf

#boot/loader.conf
hw.ata.ata-dma=0
hw.ata.atapi_dma=0

This makes the HD and CD to work for me after the install.

The error that comes up when you burn a CD seems to be bogus as I have used the CD's with out error for installing on other boxes.

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