From: Simon Burr (simes@bpfh.net)
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 11:23:01 EDT
Firstly thanks to the following people for their comments:
Nathan Jeffrey
Jim Ennis
Jason Price
Michael Lehmann
Richard Hampshire
In the main the comments were along the lines of it not affecting machines
they had or on if the ISO images were burned to the CD-Rs correctly.
After a lot of work, both on my part and on the part of Sun support, it was
found that it is the SunFire V100 at fault here. All of the CDs I burned
worked fine on other systems.
The problem only shows itself if the SunFire V100 has a Western Digital drive
installed; you can check this for yourself by running the following command:
# iostat -En
c0t2d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Model: WDC WD400BB-22DE Revision: 05.03E05 Serial No: WD-WMAD14467905
[Rest of output snipped]
The above was taken from an affected SunFire V100.
The workarounds for this is to either perform a network installation of the
machine or to use the Solaris 9 8/03 update which does not appear to be
affected by this - its currently installing at the rate I'd expect on a V100
which was affected by the installation slowness with the 4/03 release.
My original post was:
>Has anyone successful created the Solaris 9 4/03 CD-ROMs from the ISO
>images on Sun's web site ? Whilst the CDs are created fine, the resulting CDs
>end up being *very* slow - for example I've got a V100 here which was still
>installing after 24 hours. I've tried various different things to try and
>narrow down what the problem is, including:
>
> o Different CD-R drives
> o Different systems to burn the CD-Rs
> o Different brands of CD-R media, including some of the better brands of
> CD-R media
> o Ensuring that the V100 in question didn't have a problem - it didn't as
> I could fully install from a set of Solaris 9 12/02 CD-Rs within a couple
> of hours as I'd expect.
> o Ensuring that the copy of the ISO images downloaded was correct - ie
> downloading from several machines and comparing checksums.
>
>The only thing left in the above is the ISO images being corrupt in some
>strange way; its interesting to note that the CD-ROM drive in the V100 isn't
>working flat out either, its doing the occasional read rather than the sort
>of continuous reading I'd expect.
>
>Any comments on this ?
--
Simon the stressed http://www.bpfh.net/ simes@bpfh.net
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