Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems with nForce 3 + SATA + Gentoo 2005.1[-r1]

[Darren Grant]

Try using the experimental universal livecd, released December 11, 2005. 
The official 2005.1-r1 livecd wouldn't work for my motherboard + SATA 
drive either.

You can also try booting with gentoo nodetect, and then try modprobing 
sata_nv and your ethernet card.

Marcel Treis wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>i have a problem with the following hardware components:
>
>*   MSI K8N Neo Platinum Motherboard (nVIDIA nForce 3 250Gb Chipset)
>*   Maxtor 7V300F0 Harddrive
>
>
>I tried to install a 64-Bit Gentoo with the 2005.1 and 2005.1-r1 Discs,
>but both come up with IO errors. I tried to turn ACIP, ACPI, and nearly
>any fancy stuff off by means of boot parameters, but the errors still
>keep coming.
>Here's some some typical error messages: (while using fdisk)
>Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
>ata4: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd0 host_stat 0x21
>ata4: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
>Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
>lost page write due to I/O error on sda
>SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB)
>SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
>ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x977
>ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x977
>ata4: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0xd0 host_stat 0x21
>ata4: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
>Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
>ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
>ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x977
>ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x977
>ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x977
>ata4: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0xd0 host_stat 0x21
>ata4: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
>Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
> unable to read partition table
>
>
>Can anybody help? Do you need any more Details?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>
>
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