Ramiro Aceves wrote: > > I have read that others had this problem before. I > just write this report for you to know. > > When I installed FreeBSD 5.3 R, I get some errors > like this, but I could end the install: > > ad0: WARNING -READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying > request) LBA=5313599 > ad0: FAILURE -READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> > error=84 >ICRC,ABORTED> > spec_getpages:(ad0s1a) I/O read failure: (error=5) > ................ > > I have solved the problem disabling DMA: > hw.ata.ata_dma="0" > > (I previously tried disabling ACPI with no success, > and playing with BIOS LBA, LARGE, NORMAL settings > at the BIOS with no success). > > Now ad0: works in PIO4 mode and everything is fine, > previously , it was UDMA33. Now there are no errors.
There's you and me now. I have this problem with two of my PCs. I don't know yet of anybody else who has these problems. It's indeed a serious problem, but too few people running 5.3 seem to suffer from this. Have you tried with 4.11? I bet that would not generate these problems. Regards, Rob. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"