freebsd has problems with bios

Peter Clutton peterclutton at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 17:19:56 PDT 2005


> For some reason, the values of hard disk geometry (cylinders/head/
> sectors( are not accrptable to fdisk and when i agree to using
> freebsd 's idea of disk geometryt, during sysinstall -I get an error:-0
> UDMA_100 error:READWRITE Failure ICRC error.


Usually fdsisk asks you to check what the bios reports as the CHS and enter that
manually, using the g option i believe. Have you tried this?

However as stated above, and looking at those errors, this may be a
hardware problem.


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