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Subject: Re: Disk errors on installing FreeBSD 7.0
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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