error installing 5.3-stable - WRITE_DMA
mmm, i did an md5 check against the ISO and the disk and both checksums matched fine. i guess its not the cd. any other suggestions? out of desperation, i'm going to install a linux distro that i happen to have found laying about (as only linux disks can...) if it installs fine, then i would assume that the *hardware* is fine and that the problem must lie with fBSD. is that a fair assumption? or am i missing something else. much thanks --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Ara ara at avvali.com Sun Nov 7 15:50:58 PST 2004 Hello Don't you think you may have bad media? I mean have you checked the md5 sum of downloaded and burnt on low speed? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: error installing 5.3-stable - WRITE_DMA
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:44:25 +0100, craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: out of desperation, i'm going to install a linux distro that i happen to have found laying about (as only linux disks can...) if it installs fine, then i would assume that the *hardware* is fine and that the problem must lie with fBSD. is that a fair assumption? Unfortunately it is not, FreeBSD is very very picky about hardware. If the hardware is not working 100% fine, FreeBSD would complain although Windoze and Linux would live happily with it. Regards S. -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: error installing 5.3-stable - WRITE_DMA
craig wrote: out of desperation, i'm going to install a linux distro that i happen to have found laying about (as only linux disks can...) if it installs fine, then i would assume that the *hardware* is fine and that the problem must lie with fBSD. is that a fair assumption? have a look at dmesg when linux has booted. I've had a similar condition when the freebsd sysinstall would abort with the ICRC error, and linux booted, but when I looked into dmesg linux noted the exact same error, only didn't consider it fatal. it only occured once at boot anyways. nevertheless, I'd first check the UDMA cable (is it a proper 80-conductor one?) and the disk's power cable (loose contact?) -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
error installing 5.3-stable - WRITE_DMA
hi, this weekend i decided to upgrade from a working installation of fbsd 4.10 to 5.3 instead of doing a binary or source upgrade, i decided instead to do a complete reinstall. after backing up my data and relevant config files, i booted onto the 5.3 disk1 and began the install. all went well until it got to actually writing the data to the disk (ie. extracting base into \ directory) it gets to between 15% and 18% and then just hangs. looking on the other terminal i see the same error message just scrolling up ad0: WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error . blah this will carry on for a *long* time until it gives up trying. this never happended with 4.10 so i am quite puzzled. i googled for similar things and found some suggestions that the HDD might be going, so i used a low-level disk checker from hitachi (drive is hitachi 80GB) but it came out blank - the disk is fine. (its also quite new - no more than 6 months) in the BIOS i tried various combinations of disabling UDMA and 32-bit access and such things but with no luck. i have an P4 2.6GHz, 1GB RAM on an ASRock PE-Pro HT motherboard with onboard ata IDE controller. any suggestions would be very gratefully accepted. also, if you need more info on the machine, please let me know. much thanks for your help --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: error installing 5.3-stable - WRITE_DMA
Hello Don't you think you may have bad media? I mean have you checked the md5 sum of downloaded and burnt on low speed? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of craig Sent: November 7, 2004 5:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: error installing 5.3-stable - WRITE_DMA hi, this weekend i decided to upgrade from a working installation of fbsd 4.10 to 5.3 instead of doing a binary or source upgrade, i decided instead to do a complete reinstall. after backing up my data and relevant config files, i booted onto the 5.3 disk1 and began the install. all went well until it got to actually writing the data to the disk (ie. extracting base into \ directory) it gets to between 15% and 18% and then just hangs. looking on the other terminal i see the same error message just scrolling up ad0: WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error . blah this will carry on for a *long* time until it gives up trying. this never happended with 4.10 so i am quite puzzled. i googled for similar things and found some suggestions that the HDD might be going, so i used a low-level disk checker from hitachi (drive is hitachi 80GB) but it came out blank - the disk is fine. (its also quite new - no more than 6 months) in the BIOS i tried various combinations of disabling UDMA and 32-bit access and such things but with no luck. i have an P4 2.6GHz, 1GB RAM on an ASRock PE-Pro HT motherboard with onboard ata IDE controller. any suggestions would be very gratefully accepted. also, if you need more info on the machine, please let me know. much thanks for your help --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [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]
