From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 14:50:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DC1116A4D0 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:50:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from imgate01.cybertime.net (imgate01.cybertime.net [216.117.206.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3311543D3F for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hostmaster@cybertime.net) Received: from cybertime.net (mail.cybertime.net [216.117.209.200]) 41948D70BC for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:58:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from techoffice [216.117.206.15] by cybertime.net (SMTPD32-8.04) id A09A7130140; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:50:02 -0800 Message-ID: <004501c3c683$db107490$0fce75d8@cybertime.net> From: "Cybertime Hostmaster" To: Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:00:11 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: IDE to CF issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:50:04 -0000 I have been trying to get FreeBSD onto a CF, and had an assortment of issues. I now have a version of FreeBSD 5.X CURRENT that is compiled and configured in the way I want by some people that are doing the same thing I am. They use dd to flush this archive to a cf that is installed as an IDE drive, so I tried to do the same thing. The test system I am using to write this has two hard drives, but not hooked up at the same time. One is 5.1, the other is 4.9 I get the following message with 5.1: dd: /dev/ad2: Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.003308 secs (0 bytes/sec) So in case it was something odd, I went to the 4.9 and get this: dd: /dev/ad2: Input/output error Next I did tail /var/log/messages Dec 19 14:47:01 wanker /kernel: ad2: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ad2 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0) status=51 error=05 Dec 19 14:47:01 wanker /kernel: ad2: reading primary partition table: error reading fsbn 0 (error repeats several times) Most the posts I have seen with "hard error reading fsbn 0" relate to the PIO mode, which is absolutely no help. Anyone have an idea where to start? --Eric