ATA Error

[Shad0wnet]

Ok so im new to the forums but i've used pfSense before. even when i do a liveCD boot i keep getting a error the looks like this.

ahcico0: Timeout on slot 0 port 0
ahcich0: is 00000002 cs 00000000 ss 00000000 rs 00000001 tfd 150 serr 00000000 cmd 00046017
(aprobe0:ahcich0:0:0:0): ATA_IDENTIFY. ACB: ec 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00
(aprobe0:ahcich0:0:0:0): CAM Status: Command timeout
(aprobe0:ahcich0:0:0:0): Retrying Command
(aprobe0:ahcich0:0:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted

I dont know what to do i do know the is a small Windows Server System Reserve partion on the HDD and i cant seem to remove it. but it like 80MB and the drive is a 20 GB Drive. so i dont know what to do..

[viragomann]

A 20 GB disc? It would be very old. Are you sure it supports AHCI respectively NCQ?
Try to turn off AHCI in BIOS before booting pfSense. Maybe also a BIOS update could help.

[Shad0wnet]

funny i have turned of AHCI and that made it worse… then it didnt even get past the Boot loader.

[stephenw10]

Try setting a different disk access mode in the BIOS like LBA or CHS.

What hardware are you running on?

Steve

[stephenw10]

Try interrupting the boot loader to get to the OK prompt and do:

set hint.ahci.0.msi="0"
boot

As refrerrenced here:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195349#c24

Steve