I put a 20GB maxtor into my V100... Matt L
> Hi Matt, > > Thanks for the quick reply. The error you got is the same one I saw but > my V100 has the 40GB disk. > > I plan to replace the drive as you suggest. I'm looking at a good deal on > 2 80 GB 7200 RPM drives w/8MB cache right now. One drive is a Maxtor - > which I have been very happy with in the past - and the other is from > Western Digital. What brand of drive did you use to sucessfully get > FreeBSD running on your V100? > > Thanks again for the info, > Scott > >> Scott, I assume you are using the 80 gig drive that shipped with it. I >> was >> unable to get FreeBSD installed on that drive no matter what I did... >> >> I put another IDE drive in the Sun V100 and FreeBSD installed with no >> problems. I took the 80 gig drive that shipped with the V100 and put it >> in >> an i386 machine, installed FreeBSD on it with no problem. >> >> The errors I received during install were write_dma errors, I beleive >> that >> has been issues with the ATA driver and that particular machine. Like Is >> aid, I have had no issues with FreeBSD, a new IDE drive, and the Sun >> V100. >> >> Let me know what you find out! >> >> Matt Lager >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am having a problem installing FreeBSD 5.3 onto a Sun Fire v100 >>> server >>> with one IDE disk /dev/ad0. >>> >>> When I try to write the new filesystem layout to disk, it gives me the >>> error: >>> >>> Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0a! >>> Command returned status 36 >>> >>> Not sure what the problem is. Solaris 10 installs fine on this same >>> machine. Additionally, I have an Ultra 5 running FreeBSD 5.3 which >>> installed without issue. >>> >>> When laying out the disk on the v100 I tried doing both a custom and >>> auto >>> layout, both fail to write to disk and I have to abort the >>> installation. >>> >>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Scott >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >>> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
