Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 21:25:42 -0700 (PDT) From: edmarw@yahoo.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/21072: Unable to install. Can't write disklabel to ad0 (ata disk0, udma33) Message-ID: <20000906042542.236FB37B423@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 21072 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: Unable to install. Can't write disklabel to ad0 (ata disk0, udma33) >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 05 21:30:01 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Edmar Wiggers >Release: 4.0 >Organization: Personal >Environment: Can't run uname -a. Can't even install! The machine is a Pentium III 500MHz,Asus Motherboard,10GB IDE Hard disk,128MB RAM,IDE CD-ROM. >Description: After booting from Installation CD-ROM, going through everything (editing slices and partitions on the disk, selecting a distribution, etc.), the system hangs while writing the partition/slice table to the disk. After a while it gives up, giving error messages (couldn't activate swap, etc.) On virtual console 1 (alt-f2), I see messages like ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting ata0: resetting devices - done ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting ata0: resetting devices - done ... and so on The disk is OK, Win98 installs hassle-free. >How-To-Repeat: Just try installing it in a similar machine... >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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