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Date:      Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:30:02 -0600
From:      Joshua Lokken <joshua.lokken@gmail.com>
To:        Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd?
Message-ID:  <bc5b63850412240830e85ec13@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <41cc3ff7.601f054a.7e21.0125@smtp.gmail.com>
References:  <20041224145719.89760.qmail@web51607.mail.yahoo.com> <41cc3ff7.601f054a.7e21.0125@smtp.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:42:32 +0530, Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > questions@freebsd.org] 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



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