From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 03:33:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 991161065670 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 03:33:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from guam10.hdk5.net (guam10.hdk5.net [66.180.132.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49FB08FC13 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 03:33:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from mohawk7.intra.net (unknown [66.180.149.18]) by guam10.hdk5.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080B35C26; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 17:40:47 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <48C49D1B.2030003@hdk5.net> Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:33:47 -1000 From: Al Plant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 FreeBSD/i386 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fbsd1@a1poweruser.com References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: Burncd & 700MB rw/cd 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: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:33:48 -0000 FBSD1 wrote: > Been using burncd since Freebsd 4.0 with 650MB rw/cd's just fine. My local > computer store had a sale on 700MB rw/cd's and I picked up a few. Burncd > gives msg (Failure - read_big illegal request) on these 700MB rw/cd's. The > Freebsd 7.0 man burncd has no info on large sized rw/cd's? > > Does burncd need a programming update to handle these newer larger sized > rw/cd's? > > What other (built in with the release) program can be used to burn 700 MB > rw/cd's? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Aloha, HEre is what we did about a month ago when a similar issue came up wit a couple of us and CDR's. Julien Cigar wrote: > Same problems for me with atapi CD/DVD drives (READ_BIG timeouts, > etc) .. it works a bit better when dma is turned off, but then > performances are very poor. > > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 14:17 -1000, Al Plant wrote: >> N.J. Thomas wrote: >>> * "Snorre D. ?verb?" [2008-08-07 15:29:11+0000]: >>>> When I boot up with the installation DVD these error messages appear >>>> on the screen. >>>> >>>> ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=84 LBA=0055347 >>>> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=84 LBA=0 >>>> etc >>> I got the same exact errors trying to install 7.0-RELEASE on two >>> different Dell boxes. One was 4 years old, the other was brand new (3 >>> months ago). >>> >>> Never was able to fix the problem. For the older one, I plugged in an >>> external DVD drive and installed via that. For the other one, I >>> installed via a mini-install disk, and then did a minimal network >>> install. >>> >>> For the record, they both had SATA drives and the disks worked (and >>> still work) fine after the OS was installed. It was just copying the >>> base system off the CD that was causing errors. >>> >>> Thomas >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> ****************************************888 >> Aloha, >> >> I am getting the same errors as you guys with an intermittient BIG_read one occasionally. I've tried to install FreeeBSD CURRENT 8 and 7 release. >> >> This is on a no name box with a bio board and 1100 cpu. I've had this on other boxes too and load IDE drives on a box that works with them and then put them in the box with errors and they work just fine. >> >> Every thing gets recognized normally at install time, but the size of the IDE drive a Fujutsu 20 gig. shows twice what it should be every time. >> >> Dont know if this has anything to do with it, except if you change the size in installer it wont load anything. >> >> Maybe one of the top level gurus on the list can help. >> >> >> Aloha, The suggestion to put the folloeing worked to clear my DMA error. In: /boot/loader Put: hw.ata.ata_dma=0 #disable IDE DMA This allowed an uninterrupted boot. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + < email: noc@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol