Re: freebsd has problems with bios
I was replying to both you and Andrew R. Andrew mentioned the hw may be unstable. I did enter the same values provided by BIOS -but it doesn't solve the problem. Most likely, the bios on my motherboard is not compaible with freebsd. regards -kamal On 13-Oct-05, at 11:35 AM, Peter Clutton wrote: 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. No, i didn't say to try different bios modes. I said (which fdisk also says) that you should: 1. Go into the bios, see what it reports as the CHS 2. Reboot (i thought this part was a given to get back to Fdisk) 3. When you get up to the fdisk section, enter the CHS value given to you by the bios using the g key, and writing it manually. Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant http://www.kamalprasad.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd has problems with bios
The motherboard is from American Megatrends Corp and it runs Award Bios. I am pasting below info from dmesg below:- -- CPU: AMD Athalon(tm) XP(1468.47-Mhz 686 class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x662 Stepping = 2 Features -0x383f9ffFPu,VME,DE,PSE,F\PSE,TSC ,MSR,PAE,MCE,CXU,SEP,MTER,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMx,FXSR,SSE AMD Features=0xc0480800SYSCALL,MP,MMX+,3DNoq+,3DNow .. npx0:[FAST] npx0: math coprocessor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: VIA694 AWRDACPI on motherboard ... ata0: ATA channel0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA Channel 1 on ataci0 ad0: Samsung SP1604N TM100-30 at ata0-master UDMA100 acd0: dvd r drive at ata0-slave UDMA33 ad2: 39083MB Maxtor 4D040H2 DAH017K0 at ata1-master UDMA100 ad0: WARTNING -READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63 .. ad0: FAILURE -READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED LBA=63 ad2: WARTNING -READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63 .. ad2: FAILURE -READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED - sector 63 is where the first partition starts. Both discs work perfectly in windows XP and the -and if there was a cable/hw [roblem it would have shown during their functioning under windows xp. pl. let me know if you need any more info from the system. thanks -kamal On 13-Oct-05, at 3:54 PM, Andrew P. wrote: On 10/13/05, Kamal R. Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was replying to both you and Andrew R. Andrew mentioned the hw may be unstable. I did enter the same values provided by BIOS -but it doesn't solve the problem. Most likely, the bios on my motherboard is not compaible with freebsd. regards -kamal In fact FreeBSD bypasses BIOS and interacts directly with a disk controller. Could you tell us the exact vendor and make of your motherboard. It's an interesting case. Thanks, Andrew P. Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant http://www.kamalprasad.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freebsd has problems with bios
Hello. I have an american megatrends corp motherboard with an amd 2 ghz processor, 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. can someone tell me how to get past this issue? The drive is a maxtor 40 Gb hard disk. thanks -kamal Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant http://www.kamalprasad.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd has problems with bios
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/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
