Unable to Install 5.3 SPARC on Sun Fire V100

[Matthew T. Lager]

I put a 20GB maxtor into my V100...

Matt L

> Hi Matt,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.  The error you got is the same one I saw but
> my V100 has the 40GB disk.
>
> I plan to replace the drive as you suggest.  I'm looking at a good deal on
> 2 80 GB 7200 RPM drives w/8MB cache right now.  One drive is a Maxtor -
> which I have been very happy with in the past - and the other is from
> Western Digital.  What brand of drive did you use to sucessfully get
> FreeBSD running on your V100?
>
> Thanks again for the info,
> Scott
>
>> Scott, I assume you are using the 80 gig drive that shipped with it. I
>> was
>> unable to get FreeBSD installed on that drive no matter what I did...
>>
>> I put another IDE drive in the Sun V100 and FreeBSD installed with no
>> problems. I took the 80 gig drive that shipped with the V100 and put it
>> in
>> an i386 machine, installed FreeBSD on it with no problem.
>>
>> The errors I received during install were write_dma errors, I beleive
>> that
>> has been issues with the ATA driver and that particular machine. Like Is
>> aid, I have had no issues with FreeBSD, a new IDE drive, and the Sun
>> V100.
>>
>> Let me know what you find out!
>>
>> Matt Lager
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am having a problem installing FreeBSD 5.3 onto a Sun Fire v100
>>> server
>>> with one IDE disk /dev/ad0.
>>>
>>> When I try to write the new filesystem layout to disk, it gives me the
>>> error:
>>>
>>> Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0a!
>>> Command returned status 36
>>>
>>> Not sure what the problem is.  Solaris 10 installs fine on this same
>>> machine.  Additionally, I have an Ultra 5 running FreeBSD 5.3 which
>>> installed without issue.
>>>
>>> When laying out the disk on the v100 I tried doing both a custom and
>>> auto
>>> layout, both fail to write to disk and I have to abort the
>>> installation.
>>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Scott
>>>
>>>
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