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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!news.sprintlink.net!clark.net!clark.net!not-for-mail From: ack@clark.net (Eric S. Hvozda) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: [NetBSD 0.9] patch to wd.c for IDE controller weirdnesses Date: 5 Jan 1994 06:58:02 -0500 Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc. Lines: 43 Message-ID: <2gea0a$18q@explorer.clark.net> References: <2ga4l7$i75@explorer.clark.net> <2gaogb$7k@explorer.clark.net> <2gc724$plj@explorer.clark.net> <explorer.757753457@tbird.cc.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: explorer.clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <explorer.757753457@tbird.cc.iastate.edu>, Michael Graff <explorer@iastate.edu> wrote: > >My roomate has a Connor 350 as wd0 and a Maxtor as wd1. When booting, fscp -p >hangs his box. > >If we boot single user, fsck (no -p) and then ^D to multiuser, it runs >forever. > >Same sort of thing? YES! And god, do I hate it! Argiiiii! My current temporary fix is to remove all wd0 filesystems from /etc/fstab and add code to /etc/rc to check wd0 filesystems and then mount them after mount -a -t nonfs This makes the problem go away too. But It's a pain not having them in fstab. But since wd0 could go away at anytime, I suppose it's ok. I've tried placing my fsck and mount for wd0 higher up (like right after fsck -p), but it still hangs. It's some kind of majik between fsck and mount and wd.c initally. I thought it might be a problem with the drive not being spun up (wd0 does take longer to spin than wd1 for me, even in DOS). I tried to fix this by putting sleep 5 in /etc/rc before the fsck, but same result. So this appears it might be a hardware problem afterall... So are there any other NetBSDers out there with a Maxtor as wd1? If so, what is you experience? Are you having this same problem after applying the wd.c patch? For those of you without the Maxtor, what are your shunt settings? I have the Maxtor setup to be the slave in the master/slave pair. But things like spindle slave are on seperate shunts. When I get to work, I'll get the spec sheet out and follow this up. Maybe there is an additional shunt I need to short. -- Ack! Creek, not creek; Pop not soda; Car needs washed...