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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!pipex!warwick!news.dcs.warwick.ac.uk!jiwhan From: jiwhan@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Ji Whan Kim) Subject: NetBSD + Second IDE drive... Message-ID: <1993Nov2.181700.16326@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Sender: news@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: downwind Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 18:17:00 GMT Lines: 26 Hi. I have NetBSD 0.9 on my 486DX. I have 2 hard disks connected to a very cheap generic IDE controller. I've just recently disklabel'ed the 2nd drive and newfs'ed it and got it to mount successfully (ooh eerr :). The problem is that every now and then, the machine will just freeze and I can't do anything but hit the reset button. This has only happened since I added the 2nd hard drive so I'm pretty sure this is where the fault lies. Has anyone had the same problem? I wasn't too sure on the disktab entry to give the partition on the 2nd drive, so I only defined 'pa' and 'pc'. By reading the other entries I saw that 'pa' defined the 1st partition and 'pc' defined the size of the 'whole' disk (i.e. the size of the partition again?). Is this correct? I also had to modify /etc/fstab since the 6th (?) field of my /usr partition was set to 2 (allowing parallel fscks I think?) which my controller didn't seem to like at all! Basically, I changed all the 6th fields to 1 so that fsck would work sequentially. I also get an annoying 'wdc0: extra interrupt' on boot-up but I assumed this wasn't serious :) So is this the fault of my cheap controller/NetBSD/hard disk drives?? Thanks for any help, Ji.