From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 5 21:11:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F511065674; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 21:11:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from werkwelt.de (post.werkwelt.de [91.194.85.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 406BA8FC1F; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 21:11:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from [88.78.210.49] (account kuku@kukulies.org HELO [192.168.2.105]) by werkwelt.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPSA id 6455495; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:11:15 +0100 Message-ID: <49120BE4.7010009@kukulies.org> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:11:00 +0100 From: kuku User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Chadwick References: <49106440.4010906@kukulies.org> <1225813899.2734.1.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> <491090CE.1090900@hdk5.net> <49109409.8030601@kukulies.org> <4911C46A.7020401@kukulies.org> <4911C93E.4090803@kukulies.org> <20081105165148.GA15560@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20081105165148.GA15560@icarus.home.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:11:33 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick schrieb: > >> >> acd0: FAILURE - READ BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x21 ascq=0x00 >> (asc=0x21 at this time FWIW). >> > > This won't help you get FreeBSD installed any quicker, but it will give > you some insight to what the error messages mean. > > ATAPI essentially uses SCSI commands but over an ATA bus, which is why > atapicam(4) exists (which is what's giving you the xpt_* errors). The > problem is that not all drives are created equal, so some behave > differently to certain commands than others. > > ASC and ASCQ are, in layman's terms, "error codes" with added degrees of > granularity. ASC = Additional Sense Code, ASCQ = Additional Sense Code > Qualifier. These are fairly well-documented all over the web, and per > T10 specifications. Looking at a chart, specifically noting errors that > are for CD (MMC) devices, we find: > > ASC 0x11, ASCQ 0x00 == Unrecovered Read Error > ASC 0x21, ASCQ 0x00 == Logical Block Address (LBA) Out of Range > > Your first reaction will be "So does this mean I have a bad CD?", and > the answer is "not necessarily". It could be that the drive does not > support the commands FreeBSD expects available to read a CD in this > particular fashion. But it could also be a badly burned CD, or a > CD burned with buggy software. > > If at all possible, try another CD drive of some kind. Get one from a > friend, borrow one, or buy one. People have had good experiences with > Plextor and Pioneer drives, while recent Samsung drives have been > hit-or-miss. > I'm now at home at a different burner but I probably don't have a different CD recording software other than cdrecord available. that's Windows XP BTW, under which I burnt that CDs. I could prbably boot an older (4.x) FreeBSD on that machine but that would be CD record, too. Medium is also a 80 min 700 MB CD. Weren't they 650 MB in earlier times actually? Earlier times I mean, when I still had my FreeBSD subscription and got each release in a neat CD set :-) Oh well, I will give it another try and see how it works out. Later -- Christoph