FAILURE - READ_BIG

[Carl Chave]

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 at 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
>
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