Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:27:25 +0200 From: Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> To: Joachim Rosenfeld <joerosenfeld@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: major CD errors when installing 7.0 (only 7.0)! Message-ID: <1210757245.2588.3.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> In-Reply-To: <6e5cf6a70805131930i46715869jf6acae8bfc2eff99@mail.gmail.com> References: <6e5cf6a70805131930i46715869jf6acae8bfc2eff99@mail.gmail.com>
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I have this problem too ... the only solution I've found is to disable DMA (hw.ata.atapi_dma). It partially resolve the problem, but it's still impossible to burn and performance are very poor (~ 2MB/s), etc ... On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 22:30 -0400, Joachim Rosenfeld wrote: > I decided to upgrade my PC at home to FreeBSD 7.0, I've been running > it at work and on my work laptop with no problems. > > But when I installed via the 7.0 disk 1, I received CD errors when I > got to the point where it started copying the base distribution off > the disk. > > When I booted off the same CD again, I saw something similar to the following: > > acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=... ascq=... > > At first I assumed that it was my CD ROM drive (which has never given > any problems) or a bad CD, so I burned a FreeBSD 7.0 LiveDisk and > tried that, same thing. I burned 7.0-bootonly from a different > machine, and I got the same problem. > > > The odd thing is that my 6.1 and 6.3 bootdisks don't have this error > on startup (I confirmed that it is an issue on 7.0 by burning a brand > new 6.3 disk and was able to install successfully). > > Clearly 7.0 causes something to barf on my CDROM drive. > > A web search for this error shows various people have had this problem > on 4.6, 5.3, etc. > > Can anyone help? > > Joe > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform http://www.biodiversity.be Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Campus de la Plaine CP 257 Bâtiment NO, Bureau 4 N4 115C (Niveau 4) Boulevard du Triomphe, entrée ULB 2 B-1050 Bruxelles Mail: jcigar@ulb.ac.be @biobel: http://biobel.biodiversity.be/person/show/471 Tel : 02 650 57 52
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