On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:42:32 +0530, Subhro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jayson Alvarez > > Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 20:27 > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd? > > > > > > Good day, > > > > I currently have this setup at home and its > > working fine with FreeBSD 4.10. > > > > Motherboard: Jetway 830CH > > Hard Drive: 10 Gb Samsung > > Video Card: SiS on-board > > Processor: AMD Athlon 1200 Mhz (this is not an > > Athlon XP) > > Memory: 256 mb PC100 SDRAM > > > > I bought a new 80 Gb Seagate 7200 rpm Hard Drive and > > installed it on the primary master my pc. > > The access mode for my hard drive <Primary Master: > > ST380011A> in BIOS which shows these choices is set to > > Auto: > > > > CHS > > LBA > > Large > > Auto > > > > I boot into FreeBSD 5.3 cd and proceed with the > > installation. Some time after choosing the X-User in > > the installation method, it ended up failing to > > install some packages(perl and xorg). Still, it says, > > Congratulations... FreeBSD is now installed... (and > > I'm really hoping that nothing went wrong with the > > base system, and thinking to just install perl and > > xorg later). > > > > I removed the cd, and boot the pc. The kernel boots > > silently until this error message showed up: > > > > > > ad0 Warning_Read_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) > > LBA=1518639 > > ad0: Failure_Read_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> > > error=84 <ICRC, ABORTED> LBA=1518639 > > spec_getpages:(ad0s1a) I/O read failure:(error=5) > > bp0xc65fe2ec vp0xc16f7d68 > > size: 32768,resid:32768,a_count:37268, valid: 0x0 > > nread:0, reqpage:7, pindex:61, pcount:8 > > vm_fault:pager read error, pid 55(sh) > > pid 55(sh),uid 0:exited on signal 11 > > Dec 24 17:28:39 init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated > > abnormally, going to single user mode > > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > I suspect a bad Drive Cable. Could you tell us about how you have installed > the drives? I mean master slave-configuration,etc
Or it could be a problem with the broken DMA on 5.3 that countless others have posted to this list about? -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
