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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!praline.no.neosoft.com!figment From: figment@praline.no.neosoft.com (Brian Middleton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: installation problems - write failure on transfer Date: 19 Nov 1996 04:23:26 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 65 Message-ID: <56rcnu$rc@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <56hb77$2d9i@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.160.253 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Finally someone with the same problem as me! I have a 1.2G WD HD (2484C 16 63) and a Maxtor 345M HD. I downloaded the bin dist on to the WD HD and after it copies the first 3 or 4 files to the Maxtor, it gives that error. According to the info on the second pseudo terminal, it considers the files to be corrupted. So, I made a small 30M partition on Maxtor to put the bin files and it installed perfectly! But, even when I had a workable system on the Maxtor drive, any file I copied from the WD drive was corrupted. My computer is a Pentium 133 with an ASUS P55TP4XE motherboard. The motherboard has the floppy/hd controller built in(if that makes a difference). I also have a Soundblaster 32 PnP with CD-ROM and ASUS PCI-V264CT PnP VGA card using the ATI-264CT chip. The CD-ROM is connected to the IDE port on the soundcard. I used all of the default options in the installation but it still fails after the first few times. It seems as though the problem has something to do with the WD drive. I tried to be as specific as possible, but if you need any more info just e-mail me. Thanks! Brian Middleton figment@praline.no.neosoft.com gerard@holly.colostate.edu wrote: : Hello, : My installation of FreeBSD 2.1.5 isn't going as planned and I hope : someone might be able to help. First a little background... : My computer is a Pentium 75 with 1G WD HD (c:), 420M : Conner HD (d:), Reveal CDROM, soundcard, 1.44 FD, VGA. I downloaded : the files from ftp.freebsd.org/......./2.1.5-Release/bin, XF86312, and : des directories, and : also the boot.flp (that's all I need to get started right?). I was : able to get to the installation menu from the floppy and start the : process. I want to put FreeBSD on the Conner and chose default options : for the whole disk, average user. When it began the installation : process : it got to the point where it started copying the /bin files from c:. : (c:\freebsd\bin, c:\freebsd\des, etc.) It seems to copy a little bit : (1%) then gives: : Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1024 bytes) : Unable to transfer the bin distribution from wd0s1 : It also gives similar messages for des, etc. Thinking that there might : somehow be a conflict with the CDROM and one of the drives (it's daisy : chained to the Conner), I unhooked it. Then the installation process : got up to 3% on copying the /bin before the same error messages. So : now I'm wondering if the problem is due to the 1G western digital. : It's 2100C 16 63, but is setup in BIOS as 525 64 63 LBA (pfdisk says : 524 64 63). The installation disk startup shows 2100 16 63, but in the : menus its 525 64 63. Before I go messing with the drive settings in : BIOS, : which has caused lost data before, I'd like to see what you think. : Thanks in advance, : Gerard Giamberdine : gerard@holly.colostate.edu : please CC: -- Brian Middleton, KC5VKX ICBM: 29ø56.82N 89ø58.52W figment@neosoft.com http://www.neosoft.com/~figment