From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 16:30:04 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 F3D0416A4CF for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:30:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5719143D39 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:30:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.lokken@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so126902wra for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 08:30:03 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=bmrQpvOGIvOffnq3G1zvTLK94jFT/Cew/8iPIk8byG7oFSGPcng1dMNRFBTUHxmqCnNnGmNUT/3uL3Ss4X2eGds8+j2fpTAkKtLfJ9mlH+b5jQA2i0O385o/66fyv4H3k+bNp5sHfSHUAQUNYDAg5S7CUKK9VT9e6IEKmqoNVrc= Received: by 10.54.14.79 with SMTP id 79mr83935wrn; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 08:30:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.11.33 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 08:30:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:30:02 -0600 From: Joshua Lokken To: Subhro In-Reply-To: <41cc3ff7.601f054a.7e21.0125@smtp.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041224145719.89760.qmail@web51607.mail.yahoo.com> <41cc3ff7.601f054a.7e21.0125@smtp.gmail.com> cc: Mark Jayson Alvarez cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joshua Lokken List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:30:04 -0000 On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:42:32 +0530, Subhro wrote: > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Mark Jayson Alvarez > > Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 20:27 > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd? > > > > > > Good day, > > > > I currently have this setup at home and its > > working fine with FreeBSD 4.10. > > > > Motherboard: Jetway 830CH > > Hard Drive: 10 Gb Samsung > > Video Card: SiS on-board > > Processor: AMD Athlon 1200 Mhz (this is not an > > Athlon XP) > > Memory: 256 mb PC100 SDRAM > > > > I bought a new 80 Gb Seagate 7200 rpm Hard Drive and > > installed it on the primary master my pc. > > The access mode for my hard drive > ST380011A> in BIOS which shows these choices is set to > > Auto: > > > > CHS > > LBA > > Large > > Auto > > > > I boot into FreeBSD 5.3 cd and proceed with the > > installation. Some time after choosing the X-User in > > the installation method, it ended up failing to > > install some packages(perl and xorg). Still, it says, > > Congratulations... FreeBSD is now installed... (and > > I'm really hoping that nothing went wrong with the > > base system, and thinking to just install perl and > > xorg later). > > > > I removed the cd, and boot the pc. The kernel boots > > silently until this error message showed up: > > > > > > ad0 Warning_Read_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) > > LBA=1518639 > > ad0: Failure_Read_DMA status=51 > > error=84 LBA=1518639 > > spec_getpages:(ad0s1a) I/O read failure:(error=5) > > bp0xc65fe2ec vp0xc16f7d68 > > size: 32768,resid:32768,a_count:37268, valid: 0x0 > > nread:0, reqpage:7, pindex:61, pcount:8 > > vm_fault:pager read error, pid 55(sh) > > pid 55(sh),uid 0:exited on signal 11 > > Dec 24 17:28:39 init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated > > abnormally, going to single user mode > > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > I suspect a bad Drive Cable. Could you tell us about how you have installed > the drives? I mean master slave-configuration,etc Or it could be a problem with the broken DMA on 5.3 that countless others have posted to this list about? -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate