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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!udel!news.intercon.com!psinntp!telxon.mis.telxon.com!news!neon.house.gov!neon.house.gov!not-for-mail From: dorian@neon.house.gov (Dorian Deane) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Soft sectored drive support (Was "Trap 18" problem) Date: 4 May 1993 16:44:26 -0400 Organization: House Information Systems Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1s6kja$dom@neon.house.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: neon.house.gov Hi. We've made some progress since my posting regarding trap type 18 with a panic. It seems that the drive, an ESDI Maxtor EXT4380, is soft-sectored. This is what is causing the trap. However, now we need to know if there's a way to support a soft-sectored disk, or are we just out of luck? I'm not sure it matters, but his system is a generic 386 33Mhz with 8 Mb of memory, a Maxtor 330 Mb ESDI drive. It's using the AMD 386 CPU. Please email your replies to me and I'll post a summary if there's any interest, or if the replies are especially interesting. Thanks dorian -- Dorian Deane dorian@cobalt.house.gov House Information Systems Washington, DC 20515