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From: "Ron Klinkien" <ron@zappa.demon.nl>
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Subject: Re: Athlon Power and FreeBSD-STABLE experiences.
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:15:12 +0200
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> 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.



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