From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 10 12:13:03 2004 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 A8DCD16A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out010.verizon.net (out010pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 568D043D39 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:13:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.160.247.127]) by out010.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040410191302.ZQRC1910.out010.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:13:02 -0500 Message-ID: <40784725.4000205@mac.com> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:12:37 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Hudec References: <20040410102443.GB668@pleiades.aeternal.net> In-Reply-To: <20040410102443.GB668@pleiades.aeternal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out010.verizon.net from [68.160.247.127] at Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:13:02 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WRITE_DMA failure during install of 5.2.1-RELEASE 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: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 19:13:03 -0000 Martin Hudec wrote: > I am seeing following error during instalation of base system > to / as: > > ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=2305439 > ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51 error=84 > LBA=2305439 Looks like the hard drive is failing. You ought to try running a diagnostic scan on it (look for a utility from the vendor's website)... -- -Chuck