On Tuesday 04 March 2008 09:10:03 am Oliver Schonrock wrote: > We have a Dell SC1435 with the above SATA controller which was running > FreeBSD6.2 fine for about 3 months. > > We re-built it with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE from scratch (ie complete new > install from CD). Installation failed while copying base system from CD > to disk. > > Suspecting a possible hardware issue we rebuilt it again with FreeBSD > 6.3. It built and ran fine, thereby eliminating any hardware problems. > > Repeated attempts of installing FBSD7.0-RELEASE continued to fail at > slightly different points, but always when writing to disk. Virtual > Console 2 showed the following errors: > > NMI ISA 20 EISA > ad4: TIMEOUT WRITE_DMA > aNMI ISA 20, EISA > FAILURE - WRITE_DMA. retrying > > I suspect this is related to other (S)ATA related problems which have > been reported on this list, eg: > > <http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1489302+0+archive/2008/freebs >d-current/20080120.freebsd-current> > > > I would be happy to provide more information to help debug this problem, > however it is slightly difficult as I cannot even get the system > installed under 7.0. > > Any suggestions on how to get better info. I could also look into > providing remote access to the machine. > > Thanks > > Oliver Schonrock There are known issues with the HT1000, consider yourself lucky it works with 6.2-R, for a lot of people it doesn't even work there. Last I heard someone had gotten problematic HT1000 hardware in to sos_at_'s hands and he was going to find a fix, however I stopped paying attention when I started migrating off the hardware. There are tons of mailing list posts from myself and others if you want the full scoop, as well as at least one open PR. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB
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