misc/72905: Failure to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 onto an UDMA Mode 6S.M.A.R.T. harddrive

[John Grimes]

>Number:         72905
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Cannot FreeBSD 5.2.1 on UDMA Mode 6 hard dri
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 20 03:30:23 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Grimes
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
<organization of PR author (multiple lines)>
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD troodon.chesapeake.net 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD
on Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004 root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/o
IC i386


        Machine Intel Pentium 4, ASRock P4S61
>Description:
        The intall script runs ok until the images ard loade
t the loading runs at the normal speed, then it slows down t
 less than 1.0 Kbytes/sec.  Eventually it stops completely.
 is to uase a non UDMA Mode 6 hard drive.  The problem hard
eskStar 80 GB hard drive and the bios reports that it is in
T. setting, there is no way I can change the setting of the
 to work around this problem was to replace the hard drive w
t run in the UDMA Mode 6 setting.  At this point the system
oning normally.

>How-To-Repeat:
        Continue using UDMA Mode 6 S.M.A.R.T. hartdrive
>Fix:

        Replace the UDMA Mode 6 S.M.A.R.T. hardrive with a h
ot run as a UDMA Mode 6 S.M.A.R.T. harddrive.
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