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Cc: Freek Nossin <freeknossin@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: partioning failed
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On Sunday 22 October 2006 13:10, Freek Nossin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've run into some problems while I was trying to install freebsd
> 6.1 (i386).
> When I've finished partitioning and the installer wants to write
> the partition data to disk, it fails to do so.
> I used the typical settings, ie one slice on the disc, with a
> default partitioning scheme (except that I merged the /tmp with
> /var).
>
> The installer reports: unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b.
>
> I tried to use another hard disk, which resulted in the same error.
>
> On VTY1 I got the following messages:
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<ready, dsc, error> error=84<ICRC,
> aborted> LBA=63
>
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<ready, dsc, error> error=84<ICRC,
> aborted>LBA=0
>
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=64
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=64
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<ready, dsc, error> error=84<ICRC,
> aborted> LBA=64
>
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<ready, dsc, error> error=84<ICRC,
> aborted> LBA=63
>
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<ready, dsc, error> error=84<ICRC,
> aborted> LBA=63
>
> System information:
> Athlon XP 1700+ / 786 MB
> Asus A7V266 (bios v1.11)
> Maxtor 60 GB
>
> Has anyone any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Freek

I'd try a different cable for the drive.  If that doesn't fix it the 
controller on the motherboard is probably bad.

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel