Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:58:34 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Subject: Re: Very slow install from CDROM Message-ID: <20020814055835918.AAA345@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208131941001.76079-100000@heorot.1nova.com> References: <20020813050305775.AAA349@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
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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
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