From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 17:58:09 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 AB2C816A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:58:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-smtplb.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.109.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D6543D2F for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:58:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scott@rossillo.net) Received: from mail.rossillo.net (24-90-85-181.nyc.rr.com [24.90.85.181]) iAFHw06l024203; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:58:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from webmail.rossillo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.rossillo.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02E439BCD; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:58:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from 66.21.42.100 (SquirrelMail authenticated user scott); by webmail.rossillo.net with HTTP; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:58:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <24812.66.21.42.100.1100541500.squirrel@66.21.42.100> In-Reply-To: <4909.64.73.235.130.1100538008.squirrel@64.73.235.130> References: <29404.66.21.42.100.1100531343.squirrel@66.21.42.100> <4909.64.73.235.130.1100538008.squirrel@64.73.235.130> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:58:20 -0500 (EST) From: "Scott Rossillo" To: "Matthew T. Lager" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to Install 5.3 SPARC on Sun Fire V100 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: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:58:09 -0000 Hi Matt, Thanks for the quick reply. The error you got is the same one I saw but my V100 has the 40GB disk. I plan to replace the drive as you suggest. I'm looking at a good deal on 2 80 GB 7200 RPM drives w/8MB cache right now. One drive is a Maxtor - which I have been very happy with in the past - and the other is from Western Digital. What brand of drive did you use to sucessfully get FreeBSD running on your V100? Thanks again for the info, Scott > 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" >> > >