RE: install/47513: HP DC5850 can't install - can't write MBR

["Jeffrey Bromberger" <jeffrey%tram.com@localhost>]

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From: "Jeffrey Bromberger" <jeffrey%tram.com@localhost>
To: <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>, <install-manager%NetBSD.org@localhost>,
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Subject: RE: install/47513: HP DC5850 can't install - can't write MBR
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:51:31 -0500

 >  Unless there is a driver bug this sounds like failing hardware
 
 I doubt this.  I swapped in three disks, and managed to install 64-bit
 Windows 7 on all of them, just to prove to myself that this isn't =
 frazzled
 hardware.  Did this with a 500Gb disk, a 120Gb disk, and a 1Tb disk.  =
 All
 are "found" by the system, but the seek gets me nowhere.
 
 > If not, you could try to  go to the shell from the utility menu and =
 then
 do something like:
 > which will try to wipe the whole disk, and may trigger reallocation of =
 bad
 sectors.
 
 I will try this, but I have that sinking feeling nevertheless...
 =20
 > I would also recommend to  switch the bios to AHCI mode.
 
 I will do this again and try the dd command...
 =20
 J
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