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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Try a different disk drive.

What motherboard is in use here?

Ted

>-----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?
>
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