From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 17 6:19:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C16C37B857 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 06:19:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA87742; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:20:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:20:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: Nader Turki Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ERROR In-Reply-To: <002b01bfefdc$5c247540$1b9b3218@pit.adelphia.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Nader Turki wrote: >Hi there, >I'm not sure if this is the write email list but i thought you guys might be >the only ones tto help me with such a problem. >I got this machine with a 20GB IDE HD, and tried installing FreeBSD few >times. But kept getting errors like: >syncing disc 1012 1010 1000 bla bla >ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk#1315167 retrying. > >then the machine wouls reboot in 15 seconds! > >Anyway, I joined #freebsdhelp on irc and few told me you have a bad HD. So >I got a new HD and installed FreeBSD and the installation went smooth no >problem. > >Now when i try adding packages I keep getting the same error again >"ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk #131.... retrying" >then i get another error that says: >"Jul 17 06:13:55 blue /kernel: ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk#1341..." > >I'm sure it's not the Hard Drive! Cand someone help me and tell me why am I >getting that error? Is it using ata/66 mode? Does it have an ata/66 80 min cable? If so, try a 33 pin cable so it knocks it down to dma/33, I have a drive that didnt work reliably till I did such. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message