Unable to install, Error 5

[Dundermifflin]

Currently trying to get freenas going on my old desktop.

I'm am booting from a freenas DVD that I burnt but I'm am unable to install I keep getting the following error:

"Aprobe1 :ahcich1 :0 :0 :0 CAM status : command timeout

Aprobe1 :ahcich1 :0 :0 :0 Error 5, retry was blocked"

Can anyone assist?

Thanks

 

[dlavigne]

Hardware specs?

 

[Dundermifflin]

Mother Board: Acer m3201
CPU: AMD 9150e Quad 1800MHz
RAM: 2GB
HDD: 1 x 500GB SATA

Hard to get more info as I can't boot into anything to retrieve additional details.

 

[danb35]

Although I don't think it's what's causing your problem, your RAM is 1/4 of the minimum required for the current version. What version of FreeNAS are you trying to install?

 

[Dundermifflin]

Version 9.3

I understand the RAM is low, but this is only for a low demand home file server. I have ran machines on freenas with 2GB before.

 

[gpsguy]

It doesn't matter how you are using the server, 8GB is still the minimum RAM requirement for ZFS on FreeNAS. Whenever I fire up a VM for testing, evem with a couple of 30GB virtual drives, I give the OS 8GB RAM.

One could get away with say 2GB of RAM, using UFS on older versions of FreeNAS, like the 8.x series. But, with 9.3, support for UFS has been deprecated.

With that hardware, you might want to look at NAS4free (www.nas4free.org). It's hardware requirements are lower than what FreeNAS 8/9 need.

 

[Dundermifflin]

Do you think the lack of ram is what is causing this error though?

 

[Dundermifflin]

I have tried this with NAS4free and I'm getting the same error.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

I have tried this with NAS4free and I'm getting the same error.

Then my guess is your hardware isn't compatible with FreeBSD, and hence won't run FreeNAS either.

 

[danb35]

I'd think it sounds like a problem with the media (bad disc or bad burn), but the fact that also happened with NAS4Free would indicate otherwise. Perhaps a faulty CD/DVD-ROM drive? It's possible that it's incompatible, but that seems pretty unlikely.

Google comes up with a number of hits on that error; this forum thread looks like it might be somewhat relevant. But even if you can get the installation to work, you're running a significant risk of pool corruption with that hardware.

 

[Ahjohng]

I have encountered a similar problem. My system spec is ASRock E3C226D2I with 16GB ECC RAM and g3240, 8GB USB stick (system boot), and 6 Hitachi Deskstar 1TB hard disks (4 of these disks came out of an older Windows 7 RAID 10, and 2 housed Windows 7 boot disks).

While installing, FreeNAS9.3 shows the following error(s). Would this error render the installed system not able to detect any of the 6 disks?

(ada2:ahcich2:0:0:0): CAM status: ATA Status Error
(ada2:ahcich2:0:0:0): ATA status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR), error: 40 (UNC )
(ada2:ahcich2:0:0:0): RES: 51 40 30 69 70 40 74 00 00 d0 00
(ada2:ahcich2:0:0:0): Retrying command
(ada2:ahcich2:0:0:0): READ_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 60 00 00 69 70 40 74 00 00 01 00 00
(ada2:ahcich2:0:0:0): CAM status: ATA Status Error
(ada2:ahcich2:0:0:0): ATA status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR), error: 40 (UNC )
(ada2:ahcich2:0:0:0): RES: 51 40 30 69 70 40 74 00 00 d0 00
(ada2:ahcich2:0:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted
Loading early kernel modules:
GEOM_RAID5: Module loaded, version 1.3.20140711.62 (rev f91e28e40bf7)
savecore: /dev/dumpdev: No such file or directory
/etc/rc: WARNING: unable to figure out a UUID from DMI data, PLEASE FIX if you are an integrator.
/etc/rc: WARNING: generating a random one.
Setting hostuuid: 979a651b-08ad-11e5-acb6-d05099384afc.
Setting hostid: 0x08d5400e.
Not suitable dump device was found.
Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point kickstart.
Starting file system checks:
Mounting local file systems:
igb0:link state changed to UP