From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 13 23:12:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA00138 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:12:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA00133 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:12:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00381; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:12:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jay_Walton@msn.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation difficulties with ATAPI CD-ROM drive !! In-Reply-To: <9610140303.AA02700@alice.math.tamu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Patrick wrote: > NOTE: Send reply to Jay_Walton@msn.com Then please use a Reply-To: header line. Thanks. > I am using the FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE CD-ROM. Since we have > an NEC IDE ATAPI CD-ROM that is not FreeBSD compatible, I copied the > distributions to my hard disk. Now there are two error messages > that I am seeing: > > 1. Somewhere in the extraction of every distribution: I see > the message: > > "Write faliure on transfer! (wrote -1 of 1024 bytes)" This is usually indicitive of: 1) wrong path. 2) Corrupt disk. 3) bad geometry. What does the debug (alt-f2) output give for this error? > Is there anything I can do and still keep our NEC IDE > CD-ROM drive? Have you tried getting the cdrom to work? Try moving it to the slave position on the primary ide controller. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon..edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major