Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:14:43 -0700 From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) To: "Brian J. McGovern" <bmcgover@cisco.com> Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Bo Xiao <boxiao@cisco.com>, freebsd-users@cisco.com, qa@FreeBSD.ORG, bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com Subject: Re: 4.6 release and snapshots Message-ID: <200206132214.g5DMEhIL018481@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <200206131842.g5DIgPB00631@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> References: <200206131842.g5DIgPB00631@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>
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--==_Exmh_1620645375P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, "Brian J. McGovern" wrote: > Ok. The exact error information, which is reproducible is: > > 1.) On the "main" install screen, one sees: > > "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 240640 bytes)" > > 2.) On the console screen, one sees: > > " > [all the info on boot, newfs'ing, etc trimmed] > > /bin/cp > /stand/gzip: <fd:0>: invalid stored block lengths > bin/date > /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error > /stand/cpio: premature end of file > > " Hmmm. Definitely not what I saw. Based on a real quick read of sysinstall (which, by the way, is not conducive to sanity), it looks like gzip is blowing up on the compressed stream coming from the CDROM (the stream being a compressed distribution). -1 is the return value from a write(2) call. This sounds like the data being read from the CDROM is being corrupted somehow. > I was able to change the BIOS setting to boot/use the slave DVD burner (slave > on secondary controller) to boot/install, rather than the normal CD player > (master on secondary controller). What do your devices probe as? Just for the record, I have: atapci0: <Intel ICH2 ATA100 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci 0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 [snip] ad0: 39266MB <IC35L040AVER07-0> [79780/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 acd0: CD-RW <SONY CD-RW CRX175E> at ata1-master PIO4 Also, do you know what speed (e.g. 16X) are your CDROM and CDRW drives? (I'm mostly a SCSI-type person, so I'm a little out of my area.) > Working with 5.0-DP1 and 4.5 works fine > with the normal CD drive (master secondary controller), so I'm 95% certain it > s > not the drive itself. However, I'll play with it some more to see. I would tend to agree with you on this point. The good news is that you're not alone...other people have seen problems using the ata(4) driver from 4.6 to read CDs. The bad news is that sos hasn't seen any problems of this sort and can't reproduce them. I think he's convinced that all the problems people are seeing with the ata(4) driver in 4-STABLE either come from pilot error, bad hardware, or bad media. > For extra drive info, the boot/FreeBSD Drive is an IDE as master on the > primary controller. There is also a CD-RW and hard disk on an Adaptec 7892, > but neither are used during the install. OK, sounds good, thanks. I'm not sure what else to try at this point. :-( Bruce. --==_Exmh_1620645375P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE9CRlS2MoxcVugUsMRAmU9AJ9TByFNmAbyGQdeoODeKxKaW3haxQCdEjj+ PqZyxK5VJd8CzYNSmG04FiY= =2MZj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1620645375P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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