It seems Chris Radek wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a group of Compaq LTE Elite 4/50CX laptops (486dx2/50, 24meg > ram, two PCMCIA slots), on which I am attempting to install the > 4.0 snapshot from 20000209. Two of these machines report an IBM > disk (this is `-v' transcribed by hand): > > ad0: <IBM H2344-A4/G4I_A8C0> ATA-0 disk at ata0 as master > ad0: 328MB (672525 sectors), 915 cyls, 15 heads, 49 S/T, 512 B/S > ad0: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, BIOSPIO > ad0: piomode=2 dmamode=-1 udmamode=-1 cblid=0 > > and one reports a Quantum: > > ad0: <QUANTUM DAYTONA341A/ADA51100> ATA-0 disk at ata0 as master > ad0: 325MB (667260 sectors), 1011 cyls, 15 heads, 44 S/T, 512 B/S > ad0: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, BIOSPIO > ad0: piomode=3 dmamode=1 udmamode=-1 cblid=0 > > The machines with the IBM disks will not install. The machine with > the Quantum installed with no problems. As far as I can tell, the > machines are identical except for the hard disk. I am installing > them with a PCMCIA IBM ethernet adapter. > > On the IBMs, Sysinstall reports `no drives found' at the fdisk > partitioning stage, and when switching to the F2 debug screen, I > see > > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 0 status=51 error=04 > ad0: reading primary partition table: error reading fsbn 0 > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 0 status=51 error=04 > ad0: reading primary partition table: error reading fsbn 0 > > if I am reading the include file correctly, this means `error, command > aborted, drive needs service.' > > When I use the fixit floppy and try to use disklabel, I get the same > error no matter what I do. These machines came with a win95 fat16 > partition, and they boot fine, and dos fdisk can read and write the > partition table correctly. > > What can I do to help debug this problem? These drives do work using > the old wdc driver (I did get them to install by using a custom > kernel.) Try to disable the multi-sector stuff, that might be whats killing you.. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
