From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 15:45:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C06116A41F for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:45:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kamalpr@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B2343D46 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:45:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kamalpr@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 71so156054wra for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:45:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer:sender; b=JVO1yi5oDA73YMPopnG08GMl5f6H/1NW+G91cPsluYG8VHMtTWF+raX/5UwzOjaa/Kkf1g8lq2E3qISK97oMkh7HKyxMTWwqL19vaL5+B6Pl8T3lHV0QDyL+JoFkPxwLHsaZYmyrVCnMXQF4UNOZZ5RNGeqhp68P11nmduVMeVI= Received: by 10.54.86.6 with SMTP id j6mr595453wrb; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:45:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.20? ( [59.92.135.207]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 29sm6692417wrl.2005.10.13.08.45.00; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:45:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <57416b300510121719x1ae4033ue1f1af49e028512d@mail.gmail.com> <4F393520-539B-44F6-92BD-860CCF51A278@acm.org> <57416b300510122305q45ea25a5i9da5d8fe56e6e0aa@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4C7C77CE-CE99-4C41-8BA7-6BF52775D19C@acm.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Kamal R. Prasad" Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:17:55 +0530 To: Andrew P. X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Sender: "Kamal R. Prasad" Cc: Peter Clutton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd has problems with bios X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:45:05 -0000 The motherboard is from "American Megatrends Corp" and it runs Award Bios. I am pasting below info from dmesg below:- ---------------------- CPU: AMD Athalon(tm) XP(1468.47-Mhz 686 class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x662 Stepping = 2 Features -0x383f9ff AMD Features=0xc0480800 .. npx0:[FAST] npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: on motherboard ... ata0: on atapci0 ata1: on ataci0 ad0: at ata0-master UDMA100 acd0: dvd r drive at ata0-slave UDMA33 ad2: 39083MB at ata1-master UDMA100 ad0: WARTNING -READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63 .. ad0: FAILURE -READ_DMA status=51 error=84 LBA=63 ad2: WARTNING -READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63 .. ad2: FAILURE -READ_DMA status=51 error=84 --------------------- sector 63 is where the first partition starts. Both discs work perfectly in windows XP and the -and if there was a cable/hw [roblem it would have shown during their functioning under windows xp. pl. let me know if you need any more info from the system. thanks -kamal On 13-Oct-05, at 3:54 PM, Andrew P. wrote: > On 10/13/05, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: > >> I was replying to both you and Andrew R. Andrew mentioned the hw may >> be unstable. >> I did enter the same values provided by BIOS -but it doesn't solve >> the problem. >> Most likely, the bios on my motherboard is not compaible with >> freebsd. >> >> regards >> -kamal >> >> > > > In fact FreeBSD bypasses BIOS and interacts directly > with a disk controller. Could you tell us the exact vendor > and make of your motherboard. It's an interesting case. > > > Thanks, > Andrew P. > Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant http://www.kamalprasad.com/ kamalp@acm.org