From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 15 23:23: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3679137B407; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 23:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5G6N6CV038108; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 23:23:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5G6N6SD038107; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 23:23:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 23:23:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200206160623.g5G6N6SD038107@apollo.backplane.com> To: Denis DeLaRoca Cc: , Subject: Re: 4.6 CD-ROM Install Problems References: <20020615220719.R4232-100000@acacia.cts.ucla.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Hi! : :I am unable to install 4.6-RELEASE from CD-ROM. I boot allright, go into :the installer, configure the installation and then after the new file :systems are created and the installer is attempting to extract the 'bin' :distribution into the '/' root directory reading from the CD-ROM stops... : :The virtual tty 2 shows amongst its messages, : :acd0: READ_BIG Command timeout -- resetting :ata1: resetting devices :... This seems to be the same problem described a few days / week or two ago. Someone replied in that thread (included below) with a possible fix, though I'm not sure what the instructions would be to fix this from a CD boot. -Matt :Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:18:54 +0200 :From: chrisp@belgacom.net :To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG :Subject: Re: ATA Atapi Cdrom Problems :Message-ID: <20020610221854.A701@freedaemon.home.lan> :References: <1023738994.3d0504725e43f@webmail.vwebpage.com> :Mime-Version: 1.0 :Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii :Content-Disposition: inline :User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i :In-Reply-To: <1023738994.3d0504725e43f@webmail.vwebpage.com>; from johnp@vwebpage.com on Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 02:56:34PM -0500 :X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 :Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG :List-ID: :List-Archive: (Web Archive) :List-Help: (List Instructions) :List-Subscribe: :List-Unsubscribe: :X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Precedence: bulk : :> :> The 52x AOpen CD-952E/AKH and an AOpen CD-956E/AKH both suffer :> READ_BIG failures on FreeBSD installation. :> :Indeed ... AOpen, but others too, so let's not blame AOpen :-). : :I have a CD-Rewriter (Philips) (master) and a reader (AOpen 52X/AKH) (slave) :on the same ATA channel. The problem occured with both drives. : :I reported similar problems to this list a while ago, along with a :traceback: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=457725+468533+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-stable/20020505.freebsd-stable : :relevant lines from dmesg: : :acd0: CD-RW at ata1-master PIO4 :acd1: CDROM at ata1-slave PIO4 : :Using WDMA2 mode (hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 in /boot/loader.conf) works around it. :IMHO, this problem might prevent 4.6 to be installed on many, many systems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message