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Date:      Wed, 14 May 2008 23:08:10 -0400
From:      "Joachim Rosenfeld" <joerosenfeld@gmail.com>
To:        "Julien Cigar" <jcigar@ulb.ac.be>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: major CD errors when installing 7.0 (only 7.0)!
Message-ID:  <6e5cf6a70805142008g1683c9b5jf76d8b67457a2170@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1210757245.2588.3.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be>
References:  <6e5cf6a70805131930i46715869jf6acae8bfc2eff99@mail.gmail.com> <1210757245.2588.3.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be>

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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
> > But when I installed via the 7.0 disk 1, I received CD errors when I
> > got to the point where it started copying the base distribution off
> > the disk.
> >
> > When I booted off the same CD again, I saw something similar to the following:
> >
> > acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=... ascq=...
>
> I have this problem too ... the only solution I've found is to disable
> DMA (hw.ata.atapi_dma). It partially resolve the problem, but it's still
> impossible to burn and performance are very poor (~ 2MB/s), etc ...

How do I do this from the CD itself? "set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0" in the
CD's  boot loader menu seemed to do nothing.

Joe



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