From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 8 15:49:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 7379116A4CA for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:49:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from mail.ipt.ru (mail.ipt.ru [80.253.10.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340AE43D77 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:49:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from doc.sem.ipt.ru ([192.168.12.1] helo=ipt.ru) by mail.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Ghpg7-000J6T-E3; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:49:27 +0300 Received: from bsam by ipt.ru with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GhpgE-000ATk-Cs; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:49:34 +0300 To: "Mark Maddox" References: From: Boris Samorodov Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:49:34 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Mark Maddox's message of "Wed, 8 Nov 2006 08:02:14 -0700") Message-ID: <01101057@srv.sem.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Installation problem 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: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:49:33 -0000 On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 08:02:14 -0700 Mark Maddox wrote: > The cable is fine; I installed windows on the drive in the machine that > is having problems, just to see if it would work. I'm still trying to > get FreeBSD 6.1 up > -----Original Message----- > From: Lowell Gilbert [mailto:freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org] > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 8:09 AM > To: Mark Maddox > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Installation problem > "Mark Maddox" writes: > > I have an onboard Intel ICH7-M SATA controller with an SATA hard drive > > and cdrom connected to it. I am unable to install FreeBSD onto the > > harddrive. > > > > > > > > According to the FreeBSD website ICH7 has been supported since version > > 6.0 > > > > I have tried putting the controller in Legacy Mode and tried turning > > turned DMA off in on boot. I have tested both of my SATA ports on the > > motherboard to make sure they both work with an alternate operating > > system (Windows) and they both worked. > > > > > > > > I have also installed the harddrive in another computer and installed > > FreeBSD on it successfully and then (after testing it and booting > > successfully on that computer) put it in the machine I am having the > > problems with only to have it start booting and then error out with > > harddrive errors. > > > > > > > > During boot I get this error: > > > > ad0: FAILURE -READ_DMA48 status=ff > READY,DMA_READY,DSC,DRQ,CORRECTABLE,INDEX,ERROR> error=0 LBA=390721967 > > > > > > > > > > > > During install the error I get is Error mounting /mnt/dev/ad0s1e on > > /mnt/tmp : Input/output error > > > > > > > > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=ff > DMA_READY,DSC,DRQ,CORRECTABLE,INDEX,ERROR> error=0 LBA=9303631 > > > > > > > > Anyone have any ideas? > Sounds like controller problems. I'd start by replacing the SATA cable. Windows throws those messages away. And you understand it when the data got lost. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve