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Subject: Re: freebsd has problems with bios
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On 10/12/05, Kamal R. Prasad <kamalp@acm.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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Please, before we continue, verify your HDD integrity

Download diagnostics software from www.maxtor.com

Floppy disk:
http://maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346=
068/?channelpath=3D/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/All%20Downloads&down=
loadID=3D22

CD-ROM:
http://maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346=
068/?channelpath=3D/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/All%20Downloads&down=
loadID=3D113