Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:47:43 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalp@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd has problems with bios Message-ID: <cb5206420510121147w46c05a4eld68293c30366702a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BA28DC66-E4C7-4C40-8332-D69D15B73FEF@acm.org> References: <BA28DC66-E4C7-4C40-8332-D69D15B73FEF@acm.org>
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On 10/12/05, Kamal R. Prasad <kamalp@acm.org> wrote: > Hello. > > I have an american megatrends corp motherboard with an amd 2 ghz > processor, > For some reason, the values of hard disk geometry (cylinders/head/ > sectors( are not accrptable to fdisk and when i agree to using > freebsd 's idea of disk geometryt, during sysinstall -I get an error:-0 > UDMA_100 error:READWRITE Failure ICRC error. > > can someone tell me how to get past this issue? The drive is a maxtor > 40 Gb hard disk. > > thanks > -kamal > > Kamal R. Prasad > UNIX systems consultant > http://www.kamalprasad.com/ > kamalp@acm.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > Please, before we continue, verify your HDD integrity Download diagnostics software from www.maxtor.com Floppy disk: http://maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346= 068/?channelpath=3D/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/All%20Downloads&down= loadID=3D22 CD-ROM: http://maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346= 068/?channelpath=3D/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/All%20Downloads&down= loadID=3D113
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