From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 7: 8:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.libero.it (smtp2.libero.it [193.70.192.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B3F37B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 07:08:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from flag@libero.it) Received: from libero.it (151.33.115.85) by smtp2.libero.it (5.5.025) id 3AE981AF004132A4 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 16 May 2001 16:08:09 +0200 Received: (from flag@localhost) by libero.it (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4GEAjj08872 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 16 May 2001 16:10:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from flag) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 16:10:38 +0200 From: Paolo Pisati To: FreeBSD_Questions Subject: Installation failure 4.3-RELEASE-RC3 (DMA PROBLEM) Message-ID: <20010516161038.A8854@newluxor.moonspell.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Useless-Header: Look ma, it's a # sign! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD newluxor.moonspell.org 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A friend of mine, is unable to install FreeBSD on the secondary hd of its computer. This is what the console says trough the installation process: ad2s1a: hard error reading fsbn 34... ... : DMA problem fallback to PIO mode [repeated 3 times with different values] spec_getpages: (#ad/0x20010) I/O read failure: (error=5) bp 0xc34ed5bc vp 0xc7a35980 size: 36864, resid: 36864, a_count: 36864 valid: 0x0 nread: 0, reqpage:0, pindex: 2, pcount: 9 vm_fault: pages read error, pid 152 cp: /kernel: Bad address the ide chipset is Ali M1543C the hw (hd, pc, etcetc) is perfect, the same problem occurs with 4.0-S, 4.1-S, 4,2-S, etcetc any idea? -- Paolo Visit the Italian FreeBSD User Group Site: www.gufi.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message