misc/72944: Re-submit PR# 72905: FreeBSD will not install on a UDMA Mode 6 hardrive

[John Grimes]

>Number:         72944
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Re-submit PR# 72905: FreeBSD will not install on a UDMA Mode 6 hardrive
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 20 23:50:19 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Grimes
>Release:        Version 5.2.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD troodon.chesapeake.net 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004     root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
    
>Description:
 The PC is a Pentium 4 ASRock P4S61 origionally with a UDMA Mode 6 hard drive.  I spent several days attempting to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on to it.  The prelimary script would run well, but it would slow to a stop   
when the binary images were being loaded (it showed the transfer rate  of 
0.0 KBytes/sec when the loading of proflibs completely stopped.)  I replaced the hard drive with an older hard drive (non-UDMA Mode 6) and the system appears to be working well.  But the UDMA Mode 6 hard drive  
is useless.  The machines BIOS is an AMI one and the problem hard is  
an HITACHI DeskStore 80 GB hard drive.  I consider this to be an important issue especially if some one encounters it without a non-UDMA Mode 6 har drive to use as a replacement.  I have tried this several times with the same dismal results.  I apologize for the earlier corrupted bug submission     
>How-To-Repeat:
  Use the UDMA Mode 6 hard drive    
>Fix:
    Use a different hard drive than a UDMA Mode 6  
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