From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 11:28:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 847BC16A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:28:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from cmailg4.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg4.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A0443D4C for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:27:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mtm98@mcgoldrick.org) Received: from modem-2854.monkey.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.135.219.38] helo=mcgoldrick.org) by cmailg4.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1Aj1XV-0007VU-Nd for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:27:54 +0000 Received: by mcgoldrick.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B3E995129; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:27:46 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:27:46 +0000 From: Michael McGoldrick To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040120192745.GA1209@uriel.mcgoldrick.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: ATA question X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:28:03 -0000 Hi, I recently bought a Hitachi Deskstar drive (HDS722516VLAT80) onto which I was hoping to transfer my existing set up (since my current IBM drive has been making some funny noises and 'lost' a partition table last year). However, I am unable to partition this drive. I get a lot of errors like: ad3: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0 ad3: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0 ad3: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=84 LBA=0 Every time I try to do anything with the drive. Fdisk whines as follows: fdisk: can't read fdisk partition table fdisk: /boot/mbr: length must be a multiple of sector size The BIOS on this board does not supports 48 bit addressing and so reports the drive as 137GB. Additionally, the mobo only supports UDMA 33. My question is whether this might be OS related or if I have a broken drive. FreeBSD uriel.mcgoldrick.org 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #53: Fri Jan 16 22:48:24 GMT 2004 root@uriel.mcgoldrick.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/URIEL i386 -- Michael McGoldrick: michael@mcgoldrick.org