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      Dumek
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      Hi,
      I've just started my journey with pfsense and I wanted to install it on one of my old mini PC's.
      I've formated my 120GB SSD into ext4 and later into NTFS format.
      When I tried to install my pfsense it did not picked up my SSD, it can only see my USB.
      I'm sure that SSD is fine because I installed Win10 on it earlier.

      I'm getting weir error messages when booting into pfsense installer.
      Could you please help me?

      You can contact me here or via Discord - Dumek#9723

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        CAM failures like that often indicate a failing drive but could also be some incompatibility between
        the drive and controller.

        Steve

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          Dumek @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10
          I've also tried to use HDD that came with this PC and it didn't worked as well.
          Why windows 10 worked then?

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            On the same hardware? I would guess it runs the controller in a different mode or perhaps it requires a specific driver.
            Try installing FreeBSD and see if it shows the same errors.

            Steve

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              Dumek @stephenw10
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              @stephenw10
              Tried Kali-Linux with same result, will try FreeBSD

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @Dumek
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                @dumek said in installator does not see my SSD:

                Tried Kali-Linux with same result

                It also failed?

                Sounds like it might be some Windows specific thing then. Often the BIOS reports different values to Windows than any other OS.

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                  Dumek @stephenw10
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                  @stephenw10
                  Kali and FreeBSD also failed277407255_1012490089681909_6512333742651572062_n.jpg

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                    Hmm, probably not much we can do there. There may be some drive controller options in the BIOS you could try.

                    You're seeing that just trying to boot the installer not after install?

                    It may be possible to work-around it with loader variables. There are some shown here:
                    https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/kernel-ahcich-timeout-in-slot.51868/

                    Steve

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