Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:53:33 +1030 From: Lino Fusco <lfusco@webzone.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer Message-ID: <41D78555.10605@webzone.net.au>
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Hi, I am a newbie to this list and I hope I am posting to the correct list - apologies if I am off target. I am installing FreeBSD 5.3 on a hp netserver LC2000r. The box is a dual processor P3 with three scsi2 drives running in a raid1 configuration with one hot spare. We have six of these boxes. Three of them are running FreeBSD 4.8 or 4.9 without a hitch. I decided to install 5.3 from CD on a fourth box and I am having a problem. I go through the install process. When it goes to write the file structure to the drives it does this in a around 1 second - this seems very fast. Then it starts copying from the CD and I quickly get the following error: "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes)" I click ok and the next error message is: "unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0, do you want to try to retrieve it again?". So this has started me troubleshooting the possible causes of the problem: 1) First stop was to suspect the freebsd iso I had burnt was suspect. So I re burnt the cd and the problem persisted. I then suspected the ISO I had downloaded was corrupted. So I downloaded it again, burnt the cd but the problem still persisted. 2) I then suspected the second copy could have come from a cache and therefore may have the same problem as the first copy - so I checked the md5 signature but it lines up with the original from freebsd.org 3) I suspected the CD Rom drive - so I swapped it with one of our other Netserver boxes - problem still persisted. 4)I suspected a drive formatting problem - so I went back into the SCSI software, redid the raid drives and reformatted them - problem still persisted. 5) I suspected another hardware problem - so I pulled out FreeBSD 4.9 to see if that would install - and it did install without any errors. That sort of discounts there being any hardware problems. It points to something specific to freebsd 5.3. So this is where I have got to - FreeBSD 4.9 will install without errors but 5.3 will not install. I suspect the problem has to do with the initial setting up of the file structure - 5.3 is doing this in about one second whereas 4.9 takes closer to a minute to do this. Any thoughts or suggestion? Lino Webzone
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