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FreeBSD issue with 40-pin IDE

Trying to install FreeBSD on a P4, using the sysinstall not make formatting the disk or partition. boot in Safe Mode, now sysinstall works, and you can install FreeBSD without any problems

Booting using default and acpi off:

ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN

The system show this promt:

mountroot>

Booting in Safe Mode:

FreeBSD/i386 (Amnesiac) (ttyv0)

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Works but i don’t want to always boot in Safe Mode.

So searching in Google the answer, after a while searching, I going to IRC, one user told me that the problem was the 40-pin IDE cable, use one 80-pin:

Change the IDE cable from 40 to 80.

FreeBSD/i386 (Amnesiac) (ttyv0)

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by the way: It is the first time I install FreeBSD