Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 21:06:39 -0500 From: Carl Chave <carl@chave.us> To: Jerry <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAILURE - READ_BIG Message-ID: <eaba3b490903051806r75963e93mcff5a0c46fc42333@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090305223839.GA76951@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20090305223839.GA76951@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Have you tried re-burning with a different (higher quality) cd blank and see if that makes a difference? Alternatively you could get the network boot ISO and forgo using the CD altogether. Carl On 3/5/09, Jerry <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > > Hello, > > I don't if it is appropriate to post this here, but I am wondering > if any pr has been done on this. I tried to do some searching, but > only found some stuff in questions indicating a number of people > seeing the same thing, but only one person suggesting anything and > that didn't produce any different response. The error message > still came up. > > Several posters sseem to report hangs while reading the CD during > an install when the error appears. > > I burned a 7.1 i386 ISO and booted it to do an install, intending to > wipe previous stuff and do a clean install. During the boot, I get > > acd0 FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x05 > > The message is repeated a couple of lines later with different > numbers on the asc= and ascq= > > Someone suggested ignoring it. > > One responder suggested doing: > > 'enter the bootloader prompt (6) & type > > set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 > boot > > I have tried this, but gotten the same error messages. > > I am reluctant to wipe stuff and start trying to write new stuff if > things are going to fail in the middle even though I have backups. > I depend on this system for a lot of communication. > > Has this been reported - and I just haven't been effective on my search? > Is there some resolution or work around that works? > > Thank you for any help you can give, > > ////jerry > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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