From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 14:54:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A331065681 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:54:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from larinus@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E04B98FC0A for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:54:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from larinus@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i2so243927mue.3 for ; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:54:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mWrdiLwjvuzAb7CgkUKypCLT41kB4Oc05fsML3J1aHg=; b=jx0CWt01AIk+ZKVYMeN2W+sytqygNxF0Wx8G1UvM1cAihDY1jN3GlrJEPY8XZJXzPI UuRmXkTDQTm24cyLFWm38P/i9efXxeaFPXCfO9SBDDCWBZzfvzBYhWA2aun9ZC8J7uMh ykFee4UJMLErrZ9rfAsVen0CWKJ4rf9ZTcFQc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KnsRCvTtjH/L0wsWAHlWaC5p6zR702Ifg7/UCGNfHbWw1BcnEJjSlRLAmB4/SH+ToS uBSHCrs1PrC0uHdTQVidhX75rrNwyrcb8lixk2rMy6qq8BrjDOX4pNEeVS7h7ZFBxjPQ 53jRlL0j8/+0HpXBToWM8afedrIVugKE4T0hk= Received: by 10.103.203.4 with SMTP id f4mr2311010muq.8.1218119245455; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:27:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.11.16? ( [217.21.50.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y2sm5961011mug.1.2008.08.07.07.27.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:27:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <489B0656.2020104@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:27:34 +0300 From: larin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080807) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Snorre_D=2E_=D8verb=F8=22?= References: <489AF8A7.1010400@overbo.no> In-Reply-To: <489AF8A7.1010400@overbo.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk errors on installing FreeBSD 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:54:23 -0000 Snorre D. Øverbø wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 release on a box at home. > > When I boot up with the installation DVD these error messages appear on > the screen. > [Written down by hand:] > > ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 > error=84 LBA=0055347 > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 > error=84 LBA=0 > etc > etc > .... > .... > > FreeBSD sees these hard disks during boot up: > > ad0: 78533MB at ata0-master UDMA133 > ad1: 32253MB at ata0-slave UDMA100 [This is > wrong, the disk have a capacity of about 185 GB] > > > So, when I go on with the installation program and try to write to disk > the new slices and labels in fdisk I get an error message saying > something like "not able to write to the disk". > > I don't think there is something wrong with my hardware, because I just > have recently installed both Windows XP and Slackware Linux on the same > box, without any problems. > > Does anybody have any idea to fix these problems? > > > regards, > > Snorre D. Øverbø > > Try to replace the IDE ribbon cable.