Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd?

[Subhro]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Mark Jayson Alvarez
> Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 20:27
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Is this new hard drive going to be useless with freebsd?
> 
> 
> Good day,
> 
>     I currently have this setup at home and its
> working fine with FreeBSD 4.10.
> 
> Motherboard:  Jetway 830CH
> Hard Drive:   10 Gb Samsung
> Video Card:   SiS on-board
> Processor:    AMD Athlon 1200 Mhz  (this is not an
> Athlon XP)
> Memory:       256 mb PC100 SDRAM
> 
> I bought a new 80 Gb Seagate 7200 rpm Hard Drive and
> installed it on the primary master my pc.
> The access mode for my hard drive <Primary Master:
> ST380011A> in BIOS which shows these choices is set to
> Auto:
> 
>    CHS
>    LBA
>    Large
>    Auto
> 
> I boot into FreeBSD 5.3 cd and proceed with the
> installation. Some time after choosing the X-User in
> the installation method, it ended up failing to
> install some packages(perl and xorg). Still, it says,
> Congratulations... FreeBSD is now installed... (and
> I'm really hoping that nothing went wrong with the
> base system, and thinking to just install perl and
> xorg later).
> 
> I removed the cd, and boot the pc. The kernel boots
> silently until this error message showed up:
> 
> 
> ad0 Warning_Read_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request)
> LBA=1518639
> ad0: Failure_Read_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
> error=84 <ICRC, ABORTED> LBA=1518639
> spec_getpages:(ad0s1a) I/O read failure:(error=5)
> bp0xc65fe2ec vp0xc16f7d68
> size: 32768,resid:32768,a_count:37268, valid: 0x0
> nread:0, reqpage:7, pindex:61, pcount:8
> vm_fault:pager read error, pid 55(sh)
> pid 55(sh),uid 0:exited on signal 11
> Dec 24 17:28:39 init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated
> abnormally, going to single user mode
> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:

I suspect a bad Drive Cable. Could you tell us about how you have installed
the drives? I mean master slave-configuration,etc

Regards
S.

Indian Institute of Information Technology
Subhro Sankha Kar
Block AQ-13/1, Sector V
Salt Lake City
PIN 700091
India
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