Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 21:42:45 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: Lino Fusco <lfusco@webzone.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer Message-ID: <20050102054245.GD14949@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <41D78555.10605@webzone.net.au> References: <41D78555.10605@webzone.net.au>
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 03:53:33PM +1030, Lino Fusco wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie to this list and I hope I am posting to the correct list - > apologies if I am off target. > > I am installing FreeBSD 5.3 on a hp netserver LC2000r. The box is a > dual processor P3 with three scsi2 drives running in a raid1 > configuration with one hot spare. > > We have six of these boxes. Three of them are running FreeBSD 4.8 or 4.9 > without a hitch. > > I decided to install 5.3 from CD on a fourth box and I am having a problem. > > I go through the install process. When it goes to write the file > structure to the drives it does this in a around 1 second - this seems > very fast. Then it starts copying from the CD and I quickly get the > following error: > > "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes)" > > I click ok and the next error message is: > > "unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0, do you want to try > to retrieve it again?". > > So this has started me troubleshooting the possible causes of the problem: > > 1) First stop was to suspect the freebsd iso I had burnt was suspect. So > I re burnt the cd and the problem persisted. I then suspected the ISO I > had downloaded was corrupted. So I downloaded it again, burnt the cd but > the problem still persisted. > > 2) I then suspected the second copy could have come from a cache and > therefore may have the same problem as the first copy - so I checked the > md5 signature but it lines up with the original from freebsd.org > > 3) I suspected the CD Rom drive - so I swapped it with one of our other > Netserver boxes - problem still persisted. > > 4)I suspected a drive formatting problem - so I went back into the SCSI > software, redid the raid drives and reformatted them - problem still > persisted. > > 5) I suspected another hardware problem - so I pulled out FreeBSD 4.9 to > see if that would install - and it did install without any errors. That > sort of discounts there being any hardware problems. It points to > something specific to freebsd 5.3. > > So this is where I have got to - FreeBSD 4.9 will install without errors > but 5.3 will not install. > > I suspect the problem has to do with the initial setting up of the file > structure - 5.3 is doing this in about one second whereas 4.9 takes > closer to a minute to do this. > > Any thoughts or suggestion? I believe FreeBSD 5.3 does support using UFS 1 in the install, just check the option in the disklabel program, but if the partitioning also fails then that may not be the problem. > > Lino > Webzone > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C
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