From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 15 15:34:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE2637B71A; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:34:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmz@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from jmz@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2FNYta95220; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:34:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmz@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:34:55 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200103152334.f2FNYta95220@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: jmz set sender to jmz@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Jean-Marc Zucconi To: Jesper Holmberg Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: input/output error on newly installed drive In-Reply-To: <20010315213129.C2564@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> References: <20010315213129.C2564@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> Jesper Holmberg writes: > I installed an extra hard drive today, following the instructions in the > FreeBSD Handbook. All went well, and using sysinstall I put one single > partition/slice on this extra drive, ad1. I didn't mount it, but since I > didn't get any errors I figured everything had gone well and rebooted. > Now, after reboot, I can't access the drive. Not with fdisk, sysinstall > nor disklabel. I get these messages, no matter what I try: > #disklabel ad1 > ad1: HARD READ ERROR blk# 0 status=59 error=04 > ad1: reading primary partition table: error reading fsbn 0 > disklabel: /dev/ad1c: Input/output error My guess is that you have an old drive. I got the same error with a QUANTUM LPS270A. Try to use the wd driver instead of the ata driver; it works for me. Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.org [KeyID: 400B38E9] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message