Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 16:53:29 +1030 From: lists <lists@webzone.net.au> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer Message-ID: <41D79361.1050806@webzone.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20050102054245.GD14949@alzatex.com> References: <41D78555.10605@webzone.net.au> <20050102054245.GD14949@alzatex.com>
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Loren M. Lang wrote: >On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 03:53:33PM +1030, Lino Fusco wrote: > > >>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? >> >> > >I believe FreeBSD 5.3 does support using UFS 1 in the install, just >check the option in the disklabel program, but if the partitioning also >fails then that may not be the problem. > > > >>Lino >>Webzone >>_______________________________________________ >>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" >> >> > > > Hi, Tried setting the partitions to UFS1 - FreeBSD 5.3 then takes closer to a minute to setup the partitions just like 4.9 - but still get the same error message when it goes to copy the files. Thanks but did not work. Lino
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