From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 15 14:23:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guild.plethora.net (guild.plethora.net [205.166.146.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD4137B405 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:23:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seebs@plethora.net) Received: from guild.plethora.net (seebs@localhost.plethora.net [127.0.0.1]) by guild.plethora.net (8.11.2/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f6FLNQv01865 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:23:26 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200107152123.f6FLNQv01865@guild.plethora.net> From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Reply-To: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: CD-ROM compatability Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:23:26 -0500 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 I have some machines with 52x "creative labs" CD-ROM drives. They don't install very well. I get, at random points in any given install, failures to install various sets of files. Generally, the failure takes the form of a stream of checksum messages spewing on the second console, with cpio skipping things for a while until it finds something it likes. However... these same computers install, with no errors, as often as I care to try with any other OS I have handy (NetBSD and BSD/OS, mostly). Is this possibly a software thing? If so, more importantly, *is there a workaround*? I don't relish the thought of buying CD-ROM drives at random until one of them happens to work. If it matters, these are ServerWorks boards; SuperMicro 370DE6. I am suspicious that their IDE controller may have different DMA quirks than VIA and Intel boards do. I have three machines like this, and they have *identical* failures, on all three, so I don't think it's the specific drives. It could be that all Creative Labs 52x drives have this problem but, as noted, they work fine for everyone else. -s To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message