Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 25 May 2001 20:15:12 +0200
From:      "Ron Klinkien" <ron@zappa.demon.nl>
To:        <kstewart@urx.com>
Cc:        "Seth" <seth@psychotic.aberrant.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Athlon Power and FreeBSD-STABLE experiences.
Message-ID:  <002001c0e546$a3e466a0$0404a8c0@smalweer.nl>
References:  <000d01c0e50e$dc7f3180$9601a8c0@denhartogh.nl> <20010525114325.A4857@psychotic.aberrant.org> <01f201c0e53b$77ec9b40$0404a8c0@smalweer.nl> <3B0E9A27.91EE0A84@urx.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Ron Klinkien wrote:
> >
> > > Surprisingly enough, I've seen "write failed" messages when there was
a
> > > problem with the CD.  I know it sounds strange, but reburning the CD
and
> > > reinstalling fixed it.  This was a couple years ago with one of the
> > > 3-releases.
> >
> > I suspected that also, I have burnt the cd twice (from the same ISO) and
> > it failed at exactly the same spot
> >
> > Booted from my AOpen 52x, and my burner Plextor 16/10/40a, same error.
> >
> > So I thought it was my hardware setup and not the cd.
> >
> > But I just read a msg about someone getting download/disk data
corruption
> > at exact the same setup as mine (disk/cpu/mb) So maybe my ISO is
faulty...
> >
> > I don't have another machine to check my cd's on, how can I check my ISO
> > without burning it... (check it with a checksum util somehow?)
>
> There is a MD5 for the iso on the site. You can run md5 on the iso and
check
> it. I think I pulled a program to do that on Windows from the Simtel site.
>
> My KT7 also has UDMA errors. I use a Promise Ultra to run things.
>
> Kent

Aha ok, will check that MD5 checksum.

In case you missed it, about those UDMA errors, after I updated to
4.3-STABLE those errors vanished completely.

And I build quite a lot of stuff after that (XFree4, Gnome meta-port),
so plenty of drive access to test it with.

Thanks for the pointer,
Ron.



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?002001c0e546$a3e466a0$0404a8c0>