changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!
Brian John
brianjohn at fusemail.com
Sun Mar 13 15:26:53 PST 2005
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > Brian John wrote:
> >
> > > ad1: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying)
> > >
> > >...and I can't boot into FreeBSD. It just puts me in single user mode.
> > >
> > >It almost appears as if my hard drives somehow were damaged when I
> > >switched cases. However, Windows works just fine. I tried running fsck
> > >and I still get the errors. Does anyone have any clue what I can do
about
> > >this?
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > >/Brian
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > And the only, I repeat *only* thing different is the **case**?
> > You have the same motherboard, same power supply ....
> >
> Yes, all of my components are EXACTLY the same, I just bought a new case.
> I guess it is possible that one of my IDE cables all of a sudden went bad,
> but again Windows boots fine. I have been running Windows for days now
> with no problems. Anything else I can do to try to diagnose this?
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> /Brian
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Ok, well I ended up getting this to work. Basically I took the IDE cable
that I was using for my CD and DVD drives and swapped that one with the
cable that I was using for my hard drives. Now it works totally fine.
Really strange, but at least it works.
/Brian
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