Disk errors on installing FreeBSD 8.0 (solved)

[Al Plant]

Julien Cigar wrote:
> Same problems for me with atapi CD/DVD drives (READ_BIG timeouts,
> etc) .. it works a bit better when dma is turned off, but then
> performances are very poor.
> 
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 14:17 -1000, Al Plant wrote:
>> N.J. Thomas wrote:
>>> * "Snorre D. ?verb?" <snorre at overbo.no> [2008-08-07 15:29:11+0000]:
>>>> When I boot up with the installation DVD these error messages appear
>>>> on the screen.
>>>>
>>>> ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=0055347
>>>> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=0
>>>> etc
>>> I got the same exact errors trying to install 7.0-RELEASE on two
>>> different Dell boxes. One was 4 years old, the other was brand new (3
>>> months ago).
>>>
>>> Never was able to fix the problem. For the older one, I plugged in an
>>> external DVD drive and installed via that. For the other one, I
>>> installed via a mini-install disk, and then did a minimal network
>>> install.
>>>
>>> For the record, they both had SATA drives and the disks worked (and
>>> still work) fine after the OS was installed. It was just copying the
>>> base system off the CD that was causing errors.
>>>
>>> Thomas
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>>   Aloha,
>>
>> I am getting the same errors as you guys with an intermittient BIG_read 
>> one occasionally. I've tried to install FreeeBSD CURRENT 8 and 7 release.
>>
>> This is on a no name box with a bio board and 1100 cpu. I've had this on 
>> other boxes too and load IDE drives on a box that works with them and 
>> then put them in the box with errors and they work just fine.
>>
>> Every thing gets recognized normally at  install time, but the size of 
>> the IDE drive a Fujutsu 20 gig. shows twice what it should be every time.
>>
>> Dont know if this has anything to do with it, except if you change the 
>> size in installer it wont load anything.
>>
>> Maybe one of the top level gurus on the list can help.
>>
>>
>>
Aloha,

The suggestion to put the folloeing worked to clear my DMA error.

In: /boot/loader
Put: hw.ata.ata_dma=0 #disable IDE DMA

This allowed an uninterrupted boot.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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