Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 15:50:15 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, Ben Haysom <ben.haysom@gmail.com> Subject: Re: error 16 Message-ID: <200505121550.16143.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <d014caa505051106144fe7accb@mail.gmail.com> References: <d014caa50505100034507a49e6@mail.gmail.com> <d014caa505051106144fe7accb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 11 May 2005 09:14 am, Ben Haysom wrote: > Hi > > I have an AMD Duron 700Mhz running FreeBSD 5.3. > > When power up I get > > error 16 lba 287 > error 16 lba 287 > No /boot/loader > > fdisk from the installation CD finds the harddrive as normal. > > A friend found the following for me > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-March/081879.html > > Seems to be the same, but the commands that person entered don't work for > me.. > > I couldn't find anything searching on the full error. > > Any ideas, or shall I just do a complete reinstall? The machine isn't > vital so that is plausible. > > Ben Haysom. This error means the BIOS is having problems talking to your disk. According to Ralf Brown's Interrupt List 16 (0x10) means: 10h uncorrectable CRC or ECC error on read which means your drive is probably dying or dead. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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