Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:26:12 +0100 From: "craig" <craig@small-pla.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: error installing 5.3-stable - WRITE_DMA Message-ID: <000201c4c518$c9fa0830$6500a8c0@jupiter>
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hi, this weekend i decided to upgrade from a working installation of fbsd = 4.10 to 5.3 instead of doing a binary or source upgrade, i decided instead to do a complete reinstall. after backing up my data and relevant config files, i booted onto the = 5.3 disk1 and began the install. all went well until it got to actually writing the data to the disk (ie. extracting base into \ directory) it gets to between 15% and 18% and then just hangs.=20 looking on the other terminal i see the same error message just = scrolling up ad0: WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error ..... blah this will carry on for a *long* time until it gives up trying. this never happended with 4.10 so i am quite puzzled.=20 i googled for similar things and found some suggestions that the HDD = might be going, so i used a low-level disk checker from hitachi (drive is = hitachi 80GB) but it came out blank - the disk is fine. (its also quite new - no more than 6 months) in the BIOS i tried various combinations of disabling UDMA and 32-bit = access and such things but with no luck. i have an P4 2.6GHz, 1GB RAM on an ASRock PE-Pro HT motherboard with = onboard ata IDE controller. any suggestions would be very gratefully accepted. also, if you need more info on the machine, please let me know. much thanks for your help --- craig@small-pla.net =20
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