Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:19:54 +1000 From: Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com> To: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalp@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd has problems with bios Message-ID: <57416b300510121719x1ae4033ue1f1af49e028512d@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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> 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. Usually fdsisk asks you to check what the bios reports as the CHS and enter= that manually, using the g option i believe. Have you tried this? However as stated above, and looking at those errors, this may be a hardware problem.
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