Installation Problem - 8.0

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Mar 13, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Mister Itanium wrote:

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> This is what I get when I try to WRITE something on the disk:
> 
> ===============================================
> ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (0 retries left) LBA=0
> GEOM: ad0: corrupt or invalid GPT detected.
> GEOM: ad0: GPT rejected -- may not be recoverable.
> ===============================================
> 
> And then I get a message saying it can't wirte on ad0 disk etc..

> Question number 1:
> Any suggestions/help on resolving this?


You probably have a dead disk. Replace the disk and see what
happens. Notice how the disk wasn't probed at first as well:

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> atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x1000-0x100f irq 0 at device 31.1 on pci0
> atapci0: Reserved 0x10 bytes for rid 0x20 type 4 at 0x1000
> ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
> atapci0: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4 at 0x1f0
> atapci0: Reserved 0x1 bytes for rid 0x14 type 4 at 0x3f6
> ata0: reset tp1 mask=03 ostat0=00 ostat1=50
> ata0: stat0=0x01 err=0x01 lsb=0x01 msb=0x01
> ata0: stat1=0x01 err=0x01 lsb=0x01 msb=0x01
> ata0: reset tp2 stat0=01 stat1=01 devices=0x0
> ata0: [MPSAFE]
> ata0: [ITHREAD]
> ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
> atapci0: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x18 type 4 at 0x170
> atapci0: Reserved 0x1 bytes for rid 0x1c type 4 at 0x376
> ata1: reset tp1 mask=03 ostat0=50 ostat1=01
> ata1: stat0=0x00 err=0x01 lsb=0x14 msb=0xeb
> ata1: stat1=0x01 err=0x04 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00
> ata1: reset tp2 stat0=00 stat1=01 devices=0x10000
> ata1: [MPSAFE]
> ata1: [ITHREAD]
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> ata0: Identifying devices: 00000000
> ata0: New devices: 00000000
> ata1: Identifying devices: 00010000
> ata1: New devices: 00010000
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> ata1-master: pio=PIO4 wdma=WDMA2 udma=UDMA33 cable=40 wire
> acd0: setting PIO4 on ICH4 chip
> acd0: setting UDMA33 on ICH4 chip
> acd0: <CD-224E/1.9A> CDROM drive at ata1 as master
> acd0: read 4134KB/s (4134KB/s), 128KB buffer, UDMA33
> acd0: Reads: CDR, CDRW, CDDA stream, packet
> acd0: Writes:
> acd0: Audio: play, 256 volume levels
> acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray, unlocked
> acd0: Medium: CD-ROM 120mm data disc
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> ATA PseudoRAID loaded
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> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00
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There's no ad0 at all. You may want to check the RAID setting on
the controller. If it's enabled, disable it...

> Question n.2:
> How do I disable ACPI on boot on IA64 machines?

You can't. ACPI is mandatory. Nothing works without it. ACPI is at the
root of everything.

> PS: HDD works fine under Debian Linux, using fdisk I'm able to change/delete/add partitions without a problem, which makes me think it's not a hardware issue.

Did you move the hard disk onto another machine to do this?

HTH,

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com