FAILURE - READ_BIG

[Andrei Kolu]

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.
>
>
>   
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 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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