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Date:      Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:00:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Matthew T. Lager" <freebsd@trinetworks.com>
To:        "Scott Rossillo" <scott@rossillo.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unable to Install 5.3 SPARC on Sun Fire V100
Message-ID:  <4909.64.73.235.130.1100538008.squirrel@64.73.235.130>
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Scott, I assume you are using the 80 gig drive that shipped with it. I was
unable to get FreeBSD installed on that drive no matter what I did...

I put another IDE drive in the Sun V100 and FreeBSD installed with no
problems. I took the 80 gig drive that shipped with the V100 and put it in
an i386 machine, installed FreeBSD on it with no problem.

The errors I received during install were write_dma errors, I beleive that
has been issues with the ATA driver and that particular machine. Like Is
aid, I have had no issues with FreeBSD, a new IDE drive, and the Sun V100.

Let me know what you find out!

Matt Lager

> Hello,
>
> I am having a problem installing FreeBSD 5.3 onto a Sun Fire v100 server
> with one IDE disk /dev/ad0.
>
> When I try to write the new filesystem layout to disk, it gives me the
> error:
>
> Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0a!
> Command returned status 36
>
> Not sure what the problem is.  Solaris 10 installs fine on this same
> machine.  Additionally, I have an Ultra 5 running FreeBSD 5.3 which
> installed without issue.
>
> When laying out the disk on the v100 I tried doing both a custom and auto
> layout, both fail to write to disk and I have to abort the installation.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Scott
>
>
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