Someone else wrote me already. All you have to do is go into the BIOS setup: Disable HD DMA Transfers, Disable HD Translation, Switch it to PIO 0 mode. FreeBSD boots fine, then when the kernel takes over it programms the ATA controller itself, so no speed loss (little slower booting, a second or two at most). ~Chris David O'Brien wrote: >On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:20:36PM -0500, Chris Stone wrote: > > >>I have a new HP D325 minitower with an Athlon XP 3000+ processor, 512 >>RAM, 40GB 7200 HD, CD-RW/DVD-Rom. >> >> >.. > > >>Any ideas, hints, patches, bios settings; anything?? >> >> > >This is an nVidia nForce2 based system. So the ACPI BIOS is FUBARed. >With linux you have to use "acpi=oldboot". AFAIK, FreeBSD has no simular >handling. > > >Received on Sun Dec 12 2004 - 04:56:14 UTC
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