WRITE_DMA failure during install of 5.2.1-RELEASE

[Chuck Swiger]

Martin Hudec wrote:
> 	I am seeing following error during instalation of base system
> to / as:
> 
> ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=2305439
> ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51 <READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84 
> <ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=2305439

Looks like the hard drive is failing.  You ought to try running a diagnostic 
scan on it (look for a utility from the vendor's website)...

-- 
-Chuck