FreeBSD 6.1 Installation problem

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Mark Maddox" <MMaddox at TMCDesign.com> writes:

> I have an onboard Intel ICH7-M SATA controller with an SATA hard drive
> and cdrom connected to it.  I am unable to install FreeBSD onto the
> harddrive.  
>
>  
>
> According to the FreeBSD website ICH7 has been supported since version
> 6.0
>
> I have tried putting the controller in Legacy Mode and tried turning
> turned DMA off in on boot.  I have tested both of my SATA ports on the
> motherboard to make sure they both work with an alternate operating
> system (Windows) and they both worked.  
>
>  
>
> I have also installed the harddrive in another computer and installed
> FreeBSD on it successfully and then (after testing it and booting
> successfully on that computer) put it in the machine I am having the
> problems with only to have it start booting and then error out with
> harddrive errors.
>
>  
>
> During boot I get this error:
>
>  ad0: FAILURE -READ_DMA48 status=ff<BUSY,
> READY,DMA_READY,DSC,DRQ,CORRECTABLE,INDEX,ERROR> error=0 LBA=390721967
>
>  
>
>  
>
> During install the error I get is Error mounting /mnt/dev/ad0s1e on
> /mnt/tmp : Input/output error
>
>  
>
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=ff<BUSY,READY,
> DMA_READY,DSC,DRQ,CORRECTABLE,INDEX,ERROR> error=0 LBA=9303631
>
>  
>
> Anyone have any ideas?   

Sounds like controller problems.  I'd start by replacing the SATA cable.