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Date: 05 Feb 96 18:13:02 EST
From: Tom Roberts <72110.765@compuserve.com>
To: FreeBSD <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: FreeBSD 2.1 write failure!
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I am trying to install from CD to a new Seagate 1GB IDE drive. The drive is not
write-prot. and DOS installs fine. When I get to "Extracting into /bin..."
The following message appears: " Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of
10480)

What's the deal?   (If DOS and diags show disk is OK)

I've tried BIOS changes, partition changes, etc. same result.

T. Roberts