Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:59:29 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> To: Christopher Kelley <bsd@kelleycows.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to install on large hard drive Message-ID: <1133009970.95177.5.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <4388103A.9010602@kelleycows.com> References: <20051124120055.11A4F16A41F@hub.freebsd.org> <4388103A.9010602@kelleycows.com>
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On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 23:35 -0800, Christopher Kelley wrote: > Up until now, I've installed FreeBSD on smaller drives (< 15 gig), but I > recently had to replace the HD in my windows machine, so I got a larger > hard drive with the idea of installing fBSD on it as well and dual > booting that machine. > > The motherboard is an Asus A7V133, and the hard drive is a Maxtor > 4D040H2 40 gig HD. The motherboard supports LBA, so I'm led to believe > (though googling) that the HD size isn't a problem. fBSD correctly > recognizes the HD when booting. I am attempting to install FreeBSD > 6.0-Release, I haven't tried any of the 5.x versions to see if the > results are the same. > > I have a small partition for the windows system that is 5 gig, a large > partition for programs and data that is 18 gig, and around 15 gig left > for fBSD. The installer squawks about the drive geometry, and says it > will use a more sane geometry. I set up the slices and it doesn't > squawk about writing them, and then attempts to install the system. I > immediately get an error "Write failure on transfer!" and it can't seem > to write anything to the drive. > > The good news is, it isn't harming my windows partitions. I can easily > boot back into windows and everything there works. > > I did look through the manual and searched a bit on google, but I'm not > having much luck finding even suggestions of what to try. Does anyone > have any suggestions? > > Christopher > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I reported a similar problem with a Maxtor D740X-SL 40GB drive a few weeks ago. I cannot get this drive to work properly with recent versions of FreeBSD, and get the same error during installation. The disk seems to work fine with Fedora and Ubuntu. I made it work by disabling DMA, but the performance was awful. My motherboard is an ASUS P4S533.
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