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