From owner-freebsd-qa Sun May 19 12:19:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep11-int.chello.nl (amsfep11-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9CBD37B40F for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 12:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iae.nl ([213.46.9.162]) by amsfep11-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id <20020519191931.GUTF1209.amsfep11-int.chello.nl@iae.nl> for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 21:19:31 +0200 Message-ID: <3CE7FAC3.6886084C@iae.nl> Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 21:19:31 +0200 From: Hans Ottevanger X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.6-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: qa@freebsd.org Subject: 4.6-RC2 install problems with AOpen ATAPI CD-ROM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks, I downloaded the 4.6-RC2 ISO today and tried an installation on a few quite different machines (Pentium 66, Pentium 200MMX and two Dual Celerons). The only machine where I succeeded was a Dual Celeron equiped with a Plextor ATAPI 12/10/32 CD-RW. The others have an AOpen ATAPI CD-ROM drive (48X or 52X) and failed with messages like : acd0: READ_BIG command timeout - resetting ata3: resetting devices .. done while installing the first tarball. On the P66 and P200 the message is repeated three times, after which the installation stops, but the system is still responsive. The Dual Celeron (ABit BP6 based) crashes with a fatal trap 12. I also did an NFS install (from the system with the Plextor drive), and then all systems install perfectly. However, on the installed systems accessing large files on CD-ROM caused the same timeouts again, followed by a crash on the BP6. All machines functioned perfectly when installing 4.5-RELEASE, and using 4.5-STABLE up to a few weeks ago. I think this problem is already described in PR 37420. It also seems to occur with Creative CD-ROM drives. Can we do something about it, before 4.6 is released ? Otherwise this bug will prevent 4.6 from being installed on quite some hardware. Of course I can provide far more details about the hardware used, if needed. I can also do some additional experiments. Kind regards, Hans To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message