Date: 13 Aug 2002 09:13:16 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very slow install from CDROM Message-ID: <1029229998.250.7.camel@heater.vladsempire.net> In-Reply-To: <20020813050305775.AAA349@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> References: <20020813034800489.AAA346@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> <20020813050305775.AAA349@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
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On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 05:03, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > On 12 Aug 2002 at 21:47, robert Backhaus boldly uttered: > > > --- "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Trying to install on a P200-MMX (Compaq Deskpro > >>>> 4000) with a Creative Labs ~24x CDROM and 540MB Western Digital > >>>> HD. (I know, it's small, but I'm just doing the minimal install) > > > How is the CD-ROM drive, and is the disk a poor burn? > > stable reading? I've had cd-roms that take three or > > four tries to read every bit. > > > Could be the drive I suppose, I don't have much experience with it, > but I can say it seems to work fine on other CDs, and it boots fine > from the 4.6-RC2 disk. Only seems to be when it's copying files (CD > and HD running simultaneously) when it chokes up. > > It's not the CD itself, as mentioned I did an install from the same > CD on a SCSI-based system (NEC SCSI CDROM) and it went like blazes. > > I just picked up a 6GB Maxtor HD from someone 15 mins ago and am > going to put it in the system and see what happens. > > Something is very strange here beyond the speed issue, because the > install fails in various ways eventually anyway. Either it gets some > kind of coredump, or says "can't copy kernel to /" or somesuch, and > there appears to be plenty of disk space. > > Knowing Compaq, wouldn't surprise me if they had some kind of weird > disk controller on there that doesn't act like anyone else's. > > However due to the various things that have been discussed vis-a-vis > the ATA driver over the last couple of months, I was just initially > wondering if it was related to that. > > > -- > Philip J. Koenig There were some incredibly broken IDE controllers in the classic pentium and 486ish era. I usually run across them in old packard bells, but I suppose compaq could've had them as well. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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