DEBUG: diskPartitionWrite: Examining 1 devices
DEBUG: Notify: writing partition information to drive ad0
ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
ata0: resetting devices .. done
The message loops a couple of times and the system freezes.
I get similar error messages from OpenBSD.
However, here are the messages from the kernel at bootup from NetBSD:
Aug 16 02:09:33 /netbsd: pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
Aug 16 02:09:33 /netbsd: type: ata
Aug 16 02:09:33 /netbsd: c_bcount: 2048
Aug 16 02:09:33 /netbsd: c_skip: 0
Aug 16 02:09:33 /netbsd: pciide0:0:0: Bus-Master DMA error: missing
interrupt, status=0x60
Aug 16 02:09:33 /netbsd: wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA
mode 1
Aug 16 02:09:33 /netbsd: wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA
mode 1 (using DMA data transfers)
Aug 16 02:09:33 /netbsd: wd0a: DMA error writing fsbn 16 of 16-19 (wd0
bn 7165006; cn 7108 tn 2 sn 16), retrying
Aug 16 02:09:33 /netbsd: wd0: soft error (corrected)
Anybody can tell me where I can get an installation floppy image
for FreeBSD that will have a kernel with UDMA features disabled?
Note that the BIOS setup settings are circumvented by FreeBSD;
disabling UDMA in BIOS has no result.