"Kamal R. Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have verified integrity of the hard disk and this problem shows up > on a new samsung 1604N hard disk too. It is a hard disk independet > problem. > > On 13-Oct-05, at 5:49 AM, Peter Clutton wrote: > > >> For some reason, the values of hard disk geometry (cylinders/head/ > >> sectors( are not accrptable to fdisk and when i agree to using > >> freebsd 's idea of disk geometryt, during sysinstall -I get an > >> error:-0 > >> UDMA_100 error:READWRITE Failure ICRC error. > >> > > > > > > Usually fdsisk asks you to check what the bios reports as the CHS > > and enter that > > manually, using the g option i believe. Have you tried this? > > > The bios has 4 modes auto, large, lba, chs in which to access the > hard disk. I ttried all 4 modes and it doesn't solve the problem. > > However as stated above, and looking at those errors, this may be a > > hardware problem. > > > The hardware is stable and I expect any hard disk to give the same > error essentially because the interaction between bios and freebsd is > the cause of the problem.
A CRC error? Doesn't seem likely. Why do you say so? It's not like FreeBSD is using the BIOS at all at that point... Personally, I'd try another ATA cable; that's the most frequent cause of this particular symptom. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
