FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer

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Further to this problem, I have tried installing FreeBSD5.3 on a second 
hp netserver and I continue to get the same problem during the install 
process.

"Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes)"

After two weeks of stuffing around I am giving up on 5.3 - there is 
clearly something wrong with 5.3 - there does not appear to be anything 
wrong with the hardware - its appears to be a FreeBSD 5.3 issue -. I 
have gone back to 4.10 which installs fine. Somewhere between 4.10 and 
5.3 something has broken in relation to an installation on a netserver box.

Has anyone else got a hp netserver LC2000r or similar box and been able 
to get 5.3 installed?

Lino


lists wrote:

> It looks like it is having a problem relating to the mounting the 
> drives. When I rerun the FreeBSD5.3 install a second time - it lists 
> the drives from the first install but they are missing the mount 
> locations.
>
> Any suggestions on a work around?
>
> Lino
>
> lists wrote:
>
>> Loren M. Lang wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 03:53:33PM +1030, Lino Fusco wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am a newbie to this list and I hope I am posting to the correct 
>>>> list - apologies if I am off target.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> We have six of these boxes. Three of them are running FreeBSD 4.8 
>>>> or 4.9 without a hitch.
>>>>
>>>> I decided to install 5.3 from CD on a fourth box and I am having a 
>>>> problem.
>>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>> "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes)"
>>>>
>>>> I click ok and the next error message is:
>>>>
>>>> "unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0, do you want to 
>>>> try to retrieve it again?".
>>>>
>>>> So this has started me troubleshooting the possible causes of the 
>>>> problem:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> 3) I suspected the CD Rom drive - so I swapped it with one of our 
>>>> other Netserver boxes - problem still persisted.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> So this is where I have got to - FreeBSD 4.9 will install without 
>>>> errors but 5.3 will not install.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts or suggestion?
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Lino
>>>> Webzone
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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
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