Hello, I've run into some problems while I was trying to install freebsd 6.1 (i386). When I've finished partitioning and the installer wants to write the partition data to disk, it fails to do so. I used the typical settings, ie one slice on the disc, with a default partitioning scheme (except that I merged the /tmp with /var).
The installer reports: unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b. I tried to use another hard disk, which resulted in the same error. On VTY1 I got the following messages: ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63 ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<ready, dsc, error> error=84<ICRC, aborted> LBA=63 ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0 ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0 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 ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=64 ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=64 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<ready, dsc, error> error=84<ICRC, aborted> LBA=64 ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63 ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<ready, dsc, error> error=84<ICRC, aborted> LBA=63 ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63 ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<ready, dsc, error> error=84<ICRC, aborted> LBA=63 System information: Athlon XP 1700+ / 786 MB Asus A7V266 (bios v1.11) Maxtor 60 GB Has anyone any suggestions? Thanks, Freek _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"