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Date:      Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:26:48 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Brian John" <brianjohn@fusemail.com>
To:        "Brian John" <brianjohn@fusemail.com>, "Kevin Kinsey" <kdk@daleco.biz>, "Andrew Seguin " <asegu@borgtech.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re: Re: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!
Message-ID:   <1172.24.118.72.147.1110756408.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com>

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> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > Brian John wrote:
> >
> > > ad1:  WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying)
> > >
> > >...and I can't boot into FreeBSD.  It just puts me in single user mode.
> > >
> > >It almost appears as if my hard drives somehow were damaged when I
> > >switched cases.  However, Windows works just fine.  I tried running fsck
> > >and I still get the errors.  Does anyone have any clue what I can do
about
> > >this?
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > >/Brian
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > And the only, I repeat *only* thing different is the **case**?
> > You have the same motherboard, same power supply ....
> >
> Yes, all of my components are EXACTLY the same, I just bought a new case.
> I guess it is possible that one of my IDE cables all of a sudden went bad,
> but again Windows boots fine.  I have been running Windows for days now
> with no problems.  Anything else I can do to try to diagnose this?
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> /Brian
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Ok, well I ended up getting this to work.  Basically I took the IDE cable
that I was using for my CD and DVD drives and swapped that one with the
cable that I was using for my hard drives.  Now it works totally fine. 
Really strange, but at least it works.

/Brian



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