New to FreeBSD 4.9 questions about configuration

[Larry Hammer]

On Friday 09 January 2004 03:42 pm, you wrote:
> # larrykh465 at SoftHome.net / 2004-01-09 12:57:26 -0800:
> > I changed /etc/ttys ie.
> > #ttyv8	"/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"	xterm	off secure
> > ttyv8	"/usr/local/bin/kdm"		xterm	on  secure
> >
> > it woks as expected but with respect to the /etc/ttys  right before X
> > starts I am getting a message refering to abnormal helper termination
> > error code 0 it doesn't seem to be hurting antthing, can I fix it?
>
>     google. this is a common problem, the warning is benign.
>
> > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a
> > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42387790 of 4160-4163 (ad0s2 bn
> > 42387790; cn 2638 tn 132 sn 4) retrying
> > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42387790 of 4160-4163 (ad0s2 bn
> > 42387790; cn 2638 tn 132 sn 4) retrying
> > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42387790 of 4160-4163 (ad0s2 bn
> > 42387790; cn 2638 tn 132 sn 4) retrying
> > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn
> > 42379502; cn 2638 tn 0 sn 32) retrying
> > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn
> > 42379502; cn 2638 tn 0 sn 32) retrying
> > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn
> > 42379502; cn 2638 tn 0 sn 32) retrying
> > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn
> > 42379502; cn 2638 tn 0 sn 32) falling back to PIO mode
> > in bois the hard drives pio mode is set to auto I have the options of
> > auto,and pio mode 1-5, I have tried to play with this abit but no
> > diference how do I either make the hard drive work with the udma mode
> > or configure the kernal to stay at pio mode in the first place?
>
>     this error has several possible reasons, one of them being a crappy
>     cable:
>    
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-November/025669.h
>tml
>
> > I stiil need to set up the printer "Apollo p-2600"  havnt even tried
> > yet.
>
>     ISTR there's a chapter on printing in the Handbook, did you read it?
>
> > and last but not least cdburner software when I had linux going.but gave
> > up trying to keep up with it,   I had K3B who do I beg to  port  this??
>
>     a colleague of mine (a Mandraker) uses k3b, and from the look of it
>     it's just a gui frontend to cdrecord... try kde at freebsd.org.
>
>
>
>     BTW you might do yourself a favor by sending one question/topic per
>     message. people usually give up on long messages just because
>     they're long (and you get to be able to use a more descriptive
>     subject :)
Hello,

after checking the cable to the hard drive it was the 80 wire 40 pin, in good 
shape

I pulled everything but the hard drive and booted, it fixed it, the cdrom that 
I had setup as the slave on the ide0 bus seems to be conflicting, so I set up 
the cdrom and zip on the second bus and marked the ide0 slave as "not 
installed" in bios.
The UDMA ICRC errorer is gone and I now have UDMA 100 everything related to 
storage  works well now :>)


the printer is of no concern at this point as I havn't even tried to get it 
going yet, when I start working with it I will read everything I can get my 
hands on
as far as my other questions I will ask about one subject at a time from now 
on.
thanks from,
Larry