From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 05:06:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 ED78F16A41F for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:06:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfalconer@puc.edu) Received: from ecf.puc.edu (ecf2.puc.edu [12.16.216.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C72E43D45 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:06:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfalconer@puc.edu) Received: from localhost (jfalconer@localhost) by ecf.puc.edu (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id k0C56Ba01772 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:06:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:06:11 -0800 (PST) From: Jon Falconer To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Subject: HP NetRAID 1Si trouble 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: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:06:19 -0000 Hi Everyone, I'm trying to recycle an old HP NetServer LC2000r P3/733 with 256MB RAM. It's been running MS Win2K for several years with no problems, but has become too slow for that task. I need to setup an email server for faculty/staff/students to do authenticated sending of email, seemed a perfect fit. So I started installing FreeBSD 6.0-Release like I've done many times before. After committing the changes, newfs claims to have succeeded for all partitions. But while extracting the install files it does not make the usual progress and fails with "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes)". Pressing alt-F2 shows the following messages: /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error /stand/cpio: warning: skipped 1024 bytes of junk /stand:cpio: :No such file or directory ... ... /stand/gunzip: : invalid stored block lengths /stand/cpio: premature end of file I've installed 6.0-Release on several other computers with this same CD so I think the CD is good. The system is booting ok from the CD so I would think that the CD drive is ok. I've updated the firmware on the 1Si card from F.02.05 to F.02.09, the latest I could find on HP's web site. I tried to install FBSD 5.4-Release with the same results. I ran a memory test, and it made three passes of eleven different test with no problems found. I installed 5.4-Release on an HP lp1000r with a NetRAID controller several months ago and it is working fine. I've run out of ideas of what to try next. Does anyone else have any suggestions? Thanks for your time, Jon