FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer

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I have made some limited progress on the FreeBSD 5.3 Netserver problem 
outline below.

I have been able to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a Netserver using the onboard 
SCSI card. However it will not install if I use the HP 1si NetRaid card 
for the SCSI drives.

So it appears to be having a problem with the HP 1si NetRaid card.

Any suggestions or advice?

Lino
Webzone

lists wrote:

> 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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