Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:23:26 -0500 From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: CD-ROM compatability Message-ID: <200107152123.f6FLNQv01865@guild.plethora.net>
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I have some machines with 52x "creative labs" CD-ROM drives. They don't install very well. I get, at random points in any given install, failures to install various sets of files. Generally, the failure takes the form of a stream of checksum messages spewing on the second console, with cpio skipping things for a while until it finds something it likes. However... these same computers install, with no errors, as often as I care to try with any other OS I have handy (NetBSD and BSD/OS, mostly). Is this possibly a software thing? If so, more importantly, *is there a workaround*? I don't relish the thought of buying CD-ROM drives at random until one of them happens to work. If it matters, these are ServerWorks boards; SuperMicro 370DE6. I am suspicious that their IDE controller may have different DMA quirks than VIA and Intel boards do. I have three machines like this, and they have *identical* failures, on all three, so I don't think it's the specific drives. It could be that all Creative Labs 52x drives have this problem but, as noted, they work fine for everyone else. -s To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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