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.
regards
-kamal
Kamal R. Prasad
UNIX systems consultant
http://www.kamalprasad.com/
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