FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer

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Loren M. Lang wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 03:53:33PM +1030, Lino Fusco wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I am a newbie to this list and I hope I am posting to the correct list - 
>>apologies if I am off target.
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>>I am installing FreeBSD 5.3 on a  hp netserver LC2000r. The box is a 
>>dual processor P3 with three scsi2 drives running in a raid1 
>>configuration with one hot spare.
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>>We have six of these boxes. Three of them are running FreeBSD 4.8 or 4.9 
>>without a hitch.
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>>I decided to install 5.3 from CD on a fourth box and I am having a problem.
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>>I go through the install process. When it goes to write the file 
>>structure to the drives it does this in a around 1 second - this seems 
>>very fast. Then it starts copying from the CD and I quickly get the 
>>following error:
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>>"Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes)"
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>>I click ok and the next error message is:
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>>"unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0, do you want to try 
>>to retrieve it again?".
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>>So this has started me troubleshooting the possible causes of the problem:
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>>1) First stop was to suspect the freebsd iso I had burnt was suspect. So 
>>I re burnt the cd  and the problem persisted. I then suspected the ISO I 
>>had downloaded was corrupted. So I downloaded it again, burnt the cd but 
>>the problem still persisted.
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>>2) I then suspected the second copy could have come from a cache and 
>>therefore may have the same problem as the first copy - so I checked the 
>>md5 signature but it lines up with the original from freebsd.org
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>>3) I suspected the CD Rom drive - so I swapped it with one of our other 
>>Netserver boxes - problem still persisted.
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>>4)I suspected a drive formatting problem - so I went back into the SCSI 
>>software, redid the raid drives and reformatted them - problem still 
>>persisted.
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>>5) I suspected another hardware problem - so I pulled out FreeBSD 4.9 to 
>>see if that would install - and it did install without any errors. That 
>>sort of discounts there being any hardware problems. It points to 
>>something specific to freebsd 5.3.
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>>So this is where I have got to - FreeBSD 4.9 will install without errors 
>>but 5.3 will not install.
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>>I suspect the problem has to do with the initial setting up of the file 
>>structure - 5.3 is doing this in about one second whereas 4.9 takes 
>>closer to a minute to do this.
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>>Any thoughts or suggestion?
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>I believe FreeBSD 5.3 does support using UFS 1 in the install, just
>check the option in the disklabel program, but if the partitioning also
>fails then that may not be the problem.
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>>Lino
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Hi,

Tried setting the partitions to UFS1 - FreeBSD 5.3 then takes closer to 
a minute to setup the partitions just like 4.9 - but still get the same 
error message when it goes to copy the files.

Thanks but did not work.

Lino