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From: toor@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Peppermint Lucy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: [NetBSD 0.9] patch to wd.c for IDE controller weirdnesses
Date: 5 Jan 1994 14:22:35 GMT
Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Mannheim
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Message-ID: <2geifb$a6d@darum.uni-mannheim.de>
References: <2ga4l7$i75@explorer.clark.net> <2gc724$plj@explorer.clark.net> <explorer.757753457@tbird.cc.iastate.edu> <2gea0a$18q@explorer.clark.net>
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In article <2gea0a$18q@explorer.clark.net>,
Eric S. Hvozda <ack@clark.net> wrote:
>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.
>>

Well it's a know bug in *BSD, that you shouldn't check partitions on
two different wd-drives at the same time. So try changing the sixth parameter
in /etc/fstab for the wd1 partitions. say from 2 to 3.

Cheers
(I think i sent this in a mail to somebody)

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