Problems with hard drives

[Peter Clutton]

On 11/13/05, Javier Matos <javierlu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I was trying to install FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT in my box but when I do it... Usually my >hard drive make a strange noise... and the screen show DMA problems
>. . Anyone is having problems with FreeBSD and Seagate hard drives?
> My system is so unstable and I don´t know how to solve the situation... hard drives hare >Seagate 160 Gb SATA

I had a similar issue, and from memory it was the cable. For instance
you probably need an 80 pin cable, or your current cable may have
something wrong with it (happens eventually with all the twisting
etc). Also check that master/slave/primary/secondary is all correct
etc.