Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:13:41 +0200 From: Lokadamus <Lokadamus@gmx.de> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Snorre_D=2E_=D8verb=F8=22?= <snorre@overbo.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk errors on installing FreeBSD 7.0 Message-ID: <489B1F35.7050605@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <489AF8A7.1010400@overbo.no> References: <489AF8A7.1010400@overbo.no>
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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<READY,DSC,ERROR> > error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=0055347 > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> > error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=0 > etc > etc > .... > .... > > FreeBSD sees these hard disks during boot up: > > ad0: 78533MB <Hitachi HDS728080PLAT20 PF20A21B> at ata0-master UDMA133 > ad1: 32253MB <Samsung SP2014N VC100-33> 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 > > Do you get the same error with FreeBSD 8.0 Current? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ regards
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