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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu!cmcl2!newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu!stark.UUCP!cs.sunysb.edu!newsserv!stark!gene From: newsserv!stark!gene@cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Strange problem with 2 IDE's Date: 28 Oct 93 07:07:51 Organization: Gene Stark's home system Lines: 21 Message-ID: <NEWSSERV!STARK!GENE.93Oct28070751@stark.uucp> References: <1993Oct27.145315.11067@penny.cs.fredonia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: stark.uucp In-reply-to: mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu's message of Wed, 27 Oct 1993 14:53:15 GMT In article <1993Oct27.145315.11067@penny.cs.fredonia.edu> mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) writes: I have 2 IDE drives working in the Master/slave mode. As far I also have FreeBSD on the drives. I am able to mount a file system from my slave drive and work with it and fsck the partitions. However, if I put any partition from my slave drive in fstab the boot hangs at the fsck check with the controller led on solid and the disk silent. This happened to me. The hanging occurs when the root fsck completes and the controller executes the single-sector read of the super block for the second drive. It is very slippery to identify the exact circumstances that cause the problem, though. Last week I posted the patches to the wd driver I am using to work around this problem. You might want to give those a try. - Gene Stark --