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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:01:29 +0200
From:      Carl Johan Gustavsson <carl.gustavsson@bahnhofbredband.se>
To:        Freek Nossin <freeknossin@planet.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: partioning failed
Message-ID:  <453BEA39.5000508@bahnhofbredband.se>
In-Reply-To: <200610221640.25873.josh@tcbug.org>
References:  <007001c6f605$4f5fddf0$9f00000a@edx2> <200610221640.25873.josh@tcbug.org>

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Josh Paetzel wrote:
> 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.
Hi!

If you are using a 40-pin cable and changing to another 40-pin doesn't
help, test with a 80-pin cable. FreeBSD can be a bit picky about that.

/ Carl

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