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      Shad0wnet
      last edited by

      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..

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        viragomann
        last edited by

        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.

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          Shad0wnet
          last edited by

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

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            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

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

            What hardware are you running on?

            Steve

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              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

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