From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 12 18:32:39 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 4D7C816A41F for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:32:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kamalpr@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6F443D49 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:32:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kamalpr@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 71so66017wra for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:32:38 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:mime-version:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer:sender; b=mnca+AU2A8A7oWo69txnHtoMLEfyfBhHQkLV/ndY0l2zHthJ8cQ8Dqaxxj6fv35GHub6wHaH3vTCi6amSORMifkp8fasgnZ+gb4BDmvFAoP2D9OAF8+zxFHWD4S3FK3awpIG6vxOQOY5Kmb5JVujEiGSPhuU3qwMtJBGf8cQqXw= Received: by 10.54.86.6 with SMTP id j6mr238573wrb; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:32:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.20? ( [59.92.132.131]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 24sm4462783wrl.2005.10.12.11.32.36; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:32:37 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Kamal R. Prasad" Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:05:52 +0530 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Sender: "Kamal R. Prasad" Subject: 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: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:32:39 -0000 Hello. I have an american megatrends corp motherboard with an amd 2 ghz processor, 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. can someone tell me how to get past this issue? The drive is a maxtor 40 Gb hard disk. thanks -kamal Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant http://www.kamalprasad.com/ kamalp@acm.org