That mo-bo has ACPI problems with amd64.  It will run Ok
on i-386. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-amd64-owner@NetBSD.org 
> [mailto:port-amd64-owner@NetBSD.org] On Behalf Of Merritt Draney
> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 11:07 AM
> To: port-amd64@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Sata troubles again
> 
> I just bought a amd64 system Asus A8N5x motherboard, Athlon 
> 64 X2 4400, 
> and Western Digital Sata 40 Gig HD.  I can get 3.0 it installed even 
> though I get this error once the hard drive is mounted
> 
> viaide(2:0:0) lost interupt
> type:  ata tc_bcount 16384 tc_skip: 0
> 
> Once I first boot it up it always hangs at
> 
> wd0 at atabus4 drive 0
> 
> during boot up
> 
> I have tried the acpimp and acpi kernels put up here last 
> month also and 
> they all do the same thing.  I have not seen this specific error as I 
> have gone through much of this list.  Any ideas? 
> 
> Also of note the 3.0 i386 acpimp kernel on the install disk 
> works but it 
> is totally i386 once installed.  It did crash on me while 
> building world 
> though but other than that it fairly stable and quite fast 
> running both 
> cpus.  Any ideas?  I am willing to be a guinea pig though I 
> might need 
> to get a new hard drive just for testing purposes.  Thank you again.
> 
>