RE: FreeBSD 6.1 Installation problem



-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Samorodov [mailto:bsam@xxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 8:50 AM
To: Mark Maddox
Cc: freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Installation problem

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 08:02:14 -0700 Mark Maddox wrote:

The cable is fine; I installed windows on the drive in the machine
that
is having problems, just to see if it would work. I'm still trying
to
get FreeBSD 6.1 up

-----Original Message-----
From: Lowell Gilbert
[mailto:freebsd-questions-local@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 8:09 AM
To: Mark Maddox
Cc: freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Installation problem

"Mark Maddox" <MMaddox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I have an onboard Intel ICH7-M SATA controller with an SATA hard
drive
and cdrom connected to it. I am unable to install FreeBSD onto
the
harddrive.



According to the FreeBSD website ICH7 has been supported since
version
6.0

I have tried putting the controller in Legacy Mode and tried
turning
turned DMA off in on boot. I have tested both of my SATA ports on
the
motherboard to make sure they both work with an alternate
operating
system (Windows) and they both worked.



I have also installed the harddrive in another computer and
installed
FreeBSD on it successfully and then (after testing it and booting
successfully on that computer) put it in the machine I am having
the
problems with only to have it start booting and then error out
with
harddrive errors.



During boot I get this error:

ad0: FAILURE -READ_DMA48 status=ff<BUSY,
READY,DMA_READY,DSC,DRQ,CORRECTABLE,INDEX,ERROR> error=0
LBA=390721967





During install the error I get is Error mounting /mnt/dev/ad0s1e
on
/mnt/tmp : Input/output error



ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=ff<BUSY,READY,
DMA_READY,DSC,DRQ,CORRECTABLE,INDEX,ERROR> error=0 LBA=9303631



Anyone have any ideas?

Sounds like controller problems. I'd start by replacing the SATA
cable.

Windows throws those messages away. And you understand it when the
data got lost.

I just tried a new cable and I get the same errors.

Windows worked fine on the machine, but I cannot use Windows for my
application.

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