From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 25 22:52:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maloca.oca.org.br (maloca.oca.org.br [164.41.38.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E15C37B665 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 22:52:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@maloca.oca.org.br) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by maloca.oca.org.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA22723 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 02:52:21 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from root@maloca.oca.org.br) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 02:52:20 -0300 (EST) From: Paje da Oca To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP!!! FreeBSD could not write a filesystem on /dev/ad0sl (My harddisk) In-Reply-To: <000f01bfdef2$01a7f6a0$c33930d4@wisdom> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The disk driver in 4.0 is faulty (ad), and it does not work with many older computers. This question has appeared several times in this list. Could anybody tell me how it could be included in the FAQs? Or, even better, what about a warning on the 4.0 page? Regards, Leonardo On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, JH wrote: > I think I have a serious problem while attempting > to install FreeBSD...When I succeed into the Installation procedure > then FreeBSD is ready to write a file system to my harddisk > (/dev/ad0sl). When it attempts to write the filesystem I receive the > error: Command status 34 (Error code 34 i presume) What is this and > what do I have to do about this? Also with other attempts to write the > filesystem it reports: /dev/ad0sl is not properly mounted...while it > is mounted with a / > > Also another questio: Is there a Alternative installation method? Like > DOS for example: sys c:? then copy the files... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message