From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 15 17:26:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay2.adelphia.net (smtprelay2.adelphia.net [64.8.25.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB39F37B405 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 17:26:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scraemondaemon.my.domain ([24.49.96.3]) by smtprelay2.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGJIL400.IZB; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:27:04 -0400 Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scraemondaemon.my.domain (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6G0Orx10965; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:24:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:24:53 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas To: Peter Seebach Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD-ROM compatability Message-ID: <20010715202453.C10278@localhost> References: <200107152123.f6FLNQv01865@guild.plethora.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200107152123.f6FLNQv01865@guild.plethora.net>; from seebs@plethora.net on Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 04:23:26PM -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 also use a Creative Labs 52x CDROM, but with no difficulties. I think you may be on the right track in suspecting some strange behaviour from the IDE controllers. I have also read that running a CDROM on a UDMA 66 controller can cause problems. Ian As it was put forth by Peter Seebach on Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 04:23:26PM -0500... > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message