Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:31:32 +0530 From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalp@acm.org> To: Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd has problems with bios Message-ID: <4F393520-539B-44F6-92BD-860CCF51A278@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <57416b300510121719x1ae4033ue1f1af49e028512d@mail.gmail.com> References: <BA28DC66-E4C7-4C40-8332-D69D15B73FEF@acm.org> <57416b300510121719x1ae4033ue1f1af49e028512d@mail.gmail.com>
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I have verified integrity of the hard disk and this problem shows up on a new samsung 1604N hard disk too. It is a hard disk independet problem. On 13-Oct-05, at 5:49 AM, Peter Clutton wrote: >> 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? > The bios has 4 modes auto, large, lba, chs in which to access the hard disk. I ttried all 4 modes and it doesn't solve the problem. > However as stated above, and looking at those errors, this may be a > hardware problem. > The hardware is stable and I expect any hard disk to give the same error essentially because the interaction between bios and freebsd is the cause of the problem. regards -kamal Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant http://www.kamalprasad.com/ kamalp@acm.org
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