Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:30:23 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee> Cc: Jerry <jerrymc@msu.edu>, Carl Chave <carl@chave.us>, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAILURE - READ_BIG Message-ID: <20090306143023.GA79566@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <49B0C8D6.2040804@bsd.ee> References: <20090305223839.GA76951@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <eaba3b490903051806r75963e93mcff5a0c46fc42333@mail.gmail.com> <49B0C8D6.2040804@bsd.ee>
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On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 08:55:18AM +0200, Andrei Kolu wrote: > Carl Chave wrote: > >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. > > Well, I don't seem to have any difficulty reading the CD. It is while doing the boot from CD - after reading it, that the error shows up. ////jerry > > > > > I'd suggest to use CD/DVD-RW media- usually those tend to be a much > better quality then plain CD/DVD-R disks. I presume that FreeBSD is more > vocal about usual hardware error messages than Linux or Windows- they > just don't show you anything unpleasant- that can make false presumption > that those operating systems are more hardware compatible. > > Yes, you can ignore this message. Read more here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed-Solomon_error_correction > >On 3/5/09, Jerry <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>I don't know 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" > >> > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >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" > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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