From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 25 11:36:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1BB237B422 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 11:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A63170650066; Fri, 25 May 2001 11:36:33 -0700 Message-ID: <3B0EA631.D2E0E548@urx.com> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:36:33 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ron Klinkien Cc: Seth , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Athlon Power and FreeBSD-STABLE experiences. References: <000d01c0e50e$dc7f3180$9601a8c0@denhartogh.nl> <20010525114325.A4857@psychotic.aberrant.org> <01f201c0e53b$77ec9b40$0404a8c0@smalweer.nl> <3B0E9A27.91EE0A84@urx.com> <002001c0e546$a3e466a0$0404a8c0@smalweer.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ron Klinkien wrote: > > > Ron Klinkien wrote: > > > > > > > Surprisingly enough, I've seen "write failed" messages when there was > a > > > > problem with the CD. I know it sounds strange, but reburning the CD > and > > > > reinstalling fixed it. This was a couple years ago with one of the > > > > 3-releases. > > > > > > I suspected that also, I have burnt the cd twice (from the same ISO) and > > > it failed at exactly the same spot > > > > > > Booted from my AOpen 52x, and my burner Plextor 16/10/40a, same error. > > > > > > So I thought it was my hardware setup and not the cd. > > > > > > But I just read a msg about someone getting download/disk data > corruption > > > at exact the same setup as mine (disk/cpu/mb) So maybe my ISO is > faulty... > > > > > > I don't have another machine to check my cd's on, how can I check my ISO > > > without burning it... (check it with a checksum util somehow?) > > > > There is a MD5 for the iso on the site. You can run md5 on the iso and > check > > it. I think I pulled a program to do that on Windows from the Simtel site. > > > > My KT7 also has UDMA errors. I use a Promise Ultra to run things. > > > > Kent > > Aha ok, will check that MD5 checksum. > > In case you missed it, about those UDMA errors, after I updated to > 4.3-STABLE those errors vanished completely. Mine didn't. The message pops up everytime I go into single user mode to do the installworld. The primary boot is still running in PIO mode. I will get one of the Promise Ultra 100's with raid-0 builtin one of these days. That or replace the mobo. Kent > > And I build quite a lot of stuff after that (XFree4, Gnome meta-port), > so plenty of drive access to test it with. > > Thanks for the pointer, > Ron. -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message