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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!aw2t+ From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: [NetBSD 0.9] patch to wd.c for IDE controller weirdnesses Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 13:57:55 -0500 Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 21 Message-ID: <Eh=5wnW00WB5ETqoEi@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <michaelv.757874748@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.386bsd.bugs: 6-Jan-94 Re: [NetBSD 0.9] patch to w.. by Michael L. VanLoon@iasta > Once again, this is *NOT* a problem except in certain circumstances. > I too have been running my machine like this for months (normal fsck > with two IDE drives). I've never had a problem. It *does* work. same here, running with two IDE's (one samsung 120mb, one wd 250mb). however... > It seems that it only works if you have swap on both drives, however, > and I've always had swap on both drives. The problem isn't with fsck, > but rather, it's probably one of the (many) hard to find bugs in the > wd driver. I recently reconfigured to only have swap on drive (I didn't need all of the swap I had setup, because I upgraded to more memory). I still haven't seen any problems. I don't use dos partitioning on either drive though (my machine is all netbsd 0.9). alex