Disk access problem with 5.3 install from CD

matthew seawise at charter.net
Thu Mar 31 21:17:00 PST 2005


Disk access problem with 5.3 install from CD
John.Dutcher at excellus.com John.Dutcher at excellus.com 
Thu Feb 3 07:37:03 PST 2005

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I have noted success stories from some who have installed FreeBSD on Compaq
Laptops similar to mine:  Compaq Armada 7400, 6.2 gig drive, 128 mb RAM.

I purchased the 5.3 (2) CD, (1) DVD set and have tried multiple times to
use CD 1
to install. All attempts fail after providing these message:

      1) Early in the process:  "ad0:  Failure  Read_DMA timed out"
              (this msg is repeated 3-4 times)

      I select a standard install, giving the entire drive to FreeBSD
      No MBR needed...don't want to accomodate other OS's

      2) Soon I get; "Writing partition information to drive ad0"

           followed by:  "Error Unable to write data to disk ad0"

               and then: "Couldn't make filesystem properly, aborting"

Responding to some other user sites, I tried doing a boot from my Win
backup rescue boot disk and ran FDISK to apply a single DOS partition as I
had read that this might help.....didn't seem to.  Results as before.

Any ideas available as to what I might try next ??






I have experienced the same error as above, but have not been able to find a resolution.
I am able to load gentoo, xandros, ubuntu and several versions of windows on the same drive, but am
not able toload FreeBSD..  FreeBSD is what i want to load.

Did you find a solution to this problem?  What was it?  Any assitance would be nice.

thanks. 



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