Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 19:00:26 -0700 From: "Gayn Winters" <gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com> To: "'Mike Jeays'" <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: DMA errors Message-ID: <0a1501c5dcf5$b2b2fce0$c901a8c0@workdog> In-Reply-To: <1130628460.690.7.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Mike Jeays > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:28 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: DMA errors > > > I have a 40GB Maxtor D740X-6L disk, and have been unable to > install 5.4 or 6.0 on it. I get errors: > > ad0: FAILURE WRITE_DMA STATUS=51 <READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84 (IRC, > ABORTED) LBA=.. > > as soon as I try to commmit the changes in sysinstall. > > I have checked that the IDE cable is the 80-wire type, and cleaned up > the connections and so on. > > I tried installing Ubuntu on this disk, and everything went > perfectly. > (Those guys have done a really great job, by the way). > > Is there some configuration trick I have missed? > Well, my first guess would be that you have a cable problem. Try a new cable and/or make sure that the disk is on the master plug (at the end of the 80-wire cable) and that the jumper on the drive is set to master (DS and not cable select CS). If you still have a problem, pls list mboard, controller, and give output of fdisk and bsdlabel. (Do the latter before trying the commit.) -gayn Bristol Systems Inc. 714/532-6776 www.bristolsystems.com
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