An I/O error occured when I install a driver

[Jue_1]

I got an I/O error when I try to install a driver, which is transfered by ftp from window OS to Unix OS.

I wonder whether the problem is caused because the format of the driver file is changed by transfer from windows to Unix.

If you have similar experience and know how to solve the problem, please give me a hand.

Thank you very much!

[Michael Tully]

What format did you use for the transfer?
ascii or binary?

You should be using 'binary'

[Jue_1]

I used binary mode for transfer, but still got the error message when I use swinstall.

[Sunil Sharma_1]

how did you get this driver ? if you downloaded from some site try to download again and see.

Source may be corupted.

Sunil

[Jue_1]

Thank you sunil, I have downloaded the driver twice, but it still doesn't work.

I have been told that the hardware of this driver might not support my HP workstation module.

Thanks for your advice anyway.

[Jdamian]

Can you post the error messages reported ?
How are you installing that driver ? -- I assumed you are using swinstall but I never saw an I/O error reported by swinstall

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi,

the exact message would be interesting.
Anyway try to install the latest SD cumulative patch PHCO_28847 (it has depencies).

I hope this helps you.

Best regards,
Ettore

[Paul Torp]

Did you remember to gunzip the depot file before running swinstall?

[Jue_1]

Thank you all!

The steps I installed the driver is as follows:

1. transfer the driver file(tar.Z) to workstation by ftp in binary mode(completed successful transfer)

2.gunzip tar.Z file (success)

3.tar -xvf tar file (success)

4. swinstall -s /tmp/xdriver

Error message:
"/tmp/xdriver":An I/O error occurred while performing this task.

Thanks again

[Roger Grotle]

What is the output of
swlist -d -s /tmp/xdriver?

Is there any more information in the logs under /var/adm/sw?

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

The fact that gunzip and tar work means the file is not corrupted when downloading, otherwise those would have reported errors. The problem seems to be with the content of the tar file itself.
Does it contain of a single file, or is it containing multiple files/directories?