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Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

ok, mi hanno costretto ad installare SLOWLARIS 9 X86!
Lo installo!
A parte che alla prima schermata rimane freezato su “probing hardware” o quacosa del genere.
Dopo innumerevoli reset riesce a fare il probing. Faccio tutte le schermate, arrivo al partizionamento disco, faccio le mie fottute partizioni.
Inizio la installazione dei file… e via CON UN PUTIFERIO DI WARNING E FAULT DEL DRIVER ATA. SCLERO PER UN ORA.
POI MI ACCORGO CHE AVEVO MESSO I JUMPER DEL DISCO MALE. FISSANDO LA DIMENSIONE A 32GB. CORREGGO.
REBOOTTO.
ORA IL BIOS VEDE 80 GB. BENE!
vado avanti: stesso problema!
CONTROLLO SUL SITO SUN E LEGGO:

forum sun frequentato da poveri cristi:

The error message …

Error for command ‘read sector’ Error Level: Retryable
Sense Key: bad block detected
Vendor ‘Gen-ATA ‘ error code: 0×8

… is really a bug in the Solaris ata driver: it prints obsolete error messages
for modern IDE disks. The correct message for a modern IDE disk is:
“interface CRC error has occurred during an Ultra DMA data transfer”.

–> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/message/16132

So, I guess there’s a hardware issue with the use of UDMA on your
system. Make sure to use short 80-pin IDE cables for UDMA.

Maybe chaning the (U)DMA mode, changing it to/from automatic mode,
or disabling DMA in the system’s BIOS helps.

You can also try to disable DMA disk transfers in Solaris 9 x86, by setting
the “ata-dma-enabled” property to a value of “0″. This can be changed
in a sub-menu on the last DCA screen, the “boot device” menu.

CIOE’ DEVO DISATTIVARE IL DMA!!??!?! MA SONO PAZZI!?!?!

Cmq leggendo su altri forum:

The “bad block detected” message appears to be an old/obsolete error
message text, somewhere in the Solaris “ata” driver.

The ATA-1 standard (1997?) defined the 0×80 bit in the IDE
controller’s error register as “bad block detected”. (See page 32 on
)

The 0×80 bit seems to be “reserved” (undefined, not used any more)
with ATA-2 and ATA-3.

ATA-4 and newer now defines this bit 0×80 as ICRC “interface CRC error
has occurred during an Ultra DMA data transfer” when using ultra dma
transfers. (see the description of the “READ DMA” or “WRITE DMA”
command in ).

The Solaris ata driver seems to interpret the 0×80 bit according to
the old / obsolete 1997 ATA-1 standard.

So the “bad block detected” message seems to be a hint that some sort
of data corruption is happening on the IDE interface during UDMA data
transfers with the HDD. With UDMA capable disks it apparently does
*not* mean “the disk drive is dying”.

Solaris’ ata driver should print a more appropriate error
message for ATA-4 or newer disks, similar to what NetBSD does
in wdperror():

MA CHE MERDA!!!!!!!!!! CHE MEVDA PUVISSIMA POVCODDIO!!!!!!

PS: E pensare che un mio collega mi diceva: RTFM, MA VAFFANCULO ANCHE A LUI. I FORUM SONO MEGLIO DEI MANUALI AHAHHA