FreeBSD 6.1 setup doesn't see my HDD
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at msu.edu
Wed Nov 29 08:30:00 PST 2006
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:48:44PM +0200, Dima wrote:
Well, this is something I have not seen, so I hope someone else
can weigh in on it.
////jerry
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:58:32PM +0200, Dima wrote:
>
> > Hmmm. I am presuming you are booted from an install CD.
> Yes, I'm booting from install CD.
>
> >> By the way there are some error messages regarding this on Ctrl+Alt+F2
> >> (during install), but they say nothing to me:
> >> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
> >> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
> >> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
> >> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED>
> >> LBA=0
> >> They're repeated 4 times.
> >
> > Hmmm.
> > I don't remember seeing anything like those when I had the afore-mentioned
> > problem. That looks like something is connected wrong or being addressed
> > wrong. It isn't a geometry issue, I don't think.
>
> But Red Hat 9 still works fine on that hardware. What can be wrong?
>
> >> My HDD is Master on first IDE-channel, CD-ROM - Secondary on the same
> >> channel.
> >
> > Can you find the dmesg information for both the disk and the CD reader
> > during the boot? Are they producing device identifiers and specs that
> > look correct?
> > Those lines will start with 'adnn:' and 'acdnn:' where nn is a number,
> > probably '0' (you hope).
>
> Yes, I can:
> ad0: 238457 MB <WDC WD2500JB-00GVC0 08.02D08> at ata0-master UDMA
> acd0 ..... at ata0-slave looks fine too (I'm too lazy to copy it :)
> Also I have ad2 and it seems fine on dmesg too.
> After that goes
>
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
>
> and repeats 3 times.
>
>
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