From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 7 23:50:58 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 ABCCD16A4CE for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:50:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from host220.ipowerweb.com (host220.ipowerweb.com [66.235.203.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5208D43D46 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:50:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ara@avvali.com) Received: (qmail 27382 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2004 23:49:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO binbinilqygidj) (69.193.88.144) by host220.ipowerweb.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2004 23:49:58 -0000 From: "Ara" To: , Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 18:50:53 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-Reply-To: <000201c4c518$c9fa0830$6500a8c0@jupiter> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.181 Thread-Index: AcTFGN2LwnZwBGvZS4ahNP6iydNWMgAC6HYQ Message-Id: <20041107235058.5208D43D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: error installing 5.3-stable - WRITE_DMA X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 23:50:58 -0000 Hello Don't you think you may have bad media? I mean have you checked the md5 sum of downloaded and burnt on low speed? -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of craig Sent: November 7, 2004 5:26 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: error installing 5.3-stable - WRITE_DMA 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. 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. 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"