From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 13 22:58:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CDB737B400 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 940FC43E65 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:58:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-17 (dyn205.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.205]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:58:35 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:58:34 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Very slow install from CDROM Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: Rick Hamell References: <20020813050305775.AAA349@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Message-ID: <20020814055835918.AAA345@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13 Aug 2002 at 19:43, Rick Hamell boldly uttered: > > Something is very strange here beyond the speed issue, because the > > install fails in various ways eventually anyway. Either it gets some > > kind of coredump, or says "can't copy kernel to /" or somesuch, and > > there appears to be plenty of disk space. > > Hmm... may be a long shot in your case, but I've had the exact > same problem. The ONLY thing I can trace it down to is an overloaded > circuit in the electrical main. (Plus it's not grounded properly, Late > 50's construction.) > Anyways, I moved the computer into a different part of the house, > finished the install up and moved it back in to my computer room. Works > fine. I just can't power on more then 5 servers & a swtich at the same > time in this room. :) Not particularly likely, given that I've had dozens of PC's through here and never something like this, but thanks for the idea. > > Knowing Compaq, wouldn't surprise me if they had some kind of weird > > disk controller on there that doesn't act like anyone else's. > > > > However due to the various things that have been discussed vis-a-vis > > the ATA driver over the last couple of months, I was just initially > > wondering if it was related to that. > > It's also possibly an IRQ conflict. Possibly your BIOS is set to > PNP OS? Nope, no such option in this 'BIOS', first of all. (FYI, the configuration util on these machines resides on disk) There are 3 settings for each IDE device (which are on separate channels): PIO mode 0 PIO mode 4 EDMA mode I've tried all 3 settings on the HD to no avail, so far have left the CDROM setting at "EDMA" because I know it supports DMA (it's much newer than the HD), but I'll mess with that a bit as well. As mentioned earlier I just got another, newer/larger HD that I'm going to be trying as well. My current theory in order of likelihood is that either: A) this IDE controller can't walk and chew gum at the same time B) something going on with the new-generation ATA driver which has caused other people issues as well. C) Something funky with this CDROM drive -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message