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    Micro drive boot error: ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE retrying

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    • E Offline
      erebus
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      I just switched over from running pfsense on an old laptop, to a via epia m board.

      When the system boots it hangs at ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE retrying

      Im using a hitachi 4gb microdrive. and an ebay'd CF to ide adapter.

      Never used a CF or microdrive for pfsense.

      Really need to get this running :(  Don't have anything to run in the meantime.

      Thanks

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        erebus
        last edited by

        I should add, Ive tried both of my hitachi drives. I'm going to try a diffrent CF adapter tonight.

        I tested the drives on another box and didn't have any issues installing XP.

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          cmb
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          You probably need to disable DMA.
          http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Booting_Options#Disable_DMA_for_IDE_drives

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            pedigree
            last edited by

            You do need to disable DMA, this is what I id with 1.2

            FYI though, 2.0rc does not install on microdrives with CF adapters and just bombs with geom errors :(

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