Re: install/41455: CD drive stalls during install

["Nino on NetBSD 4.0" <nbsdold%gmx.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/41455; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Nino on NetBSD 4.0" <nbsdold%gmx.net@localhost>
To: dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, install-manager%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: install/41455: CD drive stalls during install
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 10:52:08 +0200

 Indeed, I do see kernel messages when this happens. I do not remember them 
exactly, though. It was something like that the request timed out. I do not 
know the type of my drive - do you know any command whose output you would like 
to see in this regard?
 
 Thank you for your help.
 
 -------- Original-Nachricht --------
 > Datum: Tue, 19 May 2009 03:25:01 +0000 (UTC)
 > Von: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > An: install-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 > netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, nbsdold%gmx.net@localhost
 > Betreff: Re: install/41455: CD drive stalls during install
 
 > The following reply was made to PR install/41455; it has been noted by
 > GNATS.
 > 
 > From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: install/41455: CD drive stalls during install
 > Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 03:21:46 +0000
 > 
 >  On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 07:10:01AM +0000, nbsdold%gmx.net@localhost wrote:
 >   > I experience on one machine (a laptop, Acer Aspire 3634 WLMi, an
 >   > i386 machine with single-core Celeron processor) the problem that
 >   > installation from the CD stalls and breaks off at some point.
 >   > 
 >   > Booting the installation CD and setting up everything including
 >   > formatting the disk works fine. But when the sets shall be
 >   > extracted, the drive speeds up, the sets are read until some point,
 >   > and then I can hear the drive spin down again, and I get failure
 >   > messages for the sets - that they could not be read.
 >  
 >  This has to be more or less the same underlying problem as 41453.
 >  
 >  Do you get any messages from the kernel when the cdrom goes out to
 >  lunch?
 >  
 >  What kind of cdrom drive is it?
 >  
 >  -- 
 >  David A. Holland
 >  dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
 >  
 
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