Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:12:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jay_Walton@msn.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation difficulties with ATAPI CD-ROM drive !! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961013231058.261L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9610140303.AA02700@alice.math.tamu.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Patrick wrote: > NOTE: Send reply to Jay_Walton@msn.com Then please use a Reply-To: header line. Thanks. > I am using the FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE CD-ROM. Since we have > an NEC IDE ATAPI CD-ROM that is not FreeBSD compatible, I copied the > distributions to my hard disk. Now there are two error messages > that I am seeing: > > 1. Somewhere in the extraction of every distribution: I see > the message: > > "Write faliure on transfer! (wrote -1 of 1024 bytes)" This is usually indicitive of: 1) wrong path. 2) Corrupt disk. 3) bad geometry. What does the debug (alt-f2) output give for this error? > Is there anything I can do and still keep our NEC IDE > CD-ROM drive? Have you tried getting the cdrom to work? Try moving it to the slave position on the primary ide controller. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon..edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSI.3.94.961013231058.261L-100000>