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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!barrnet.net!oz.cdrom.com!oz.cdrom.com!jkh From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: wd0 error on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 Date: 02 Sep 1994 14:49:27 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CD-ROM Lines: 33 Message-ID: <JKH.94Sep2074927@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <345g16$icg@news.tamu.edu> <345unv$q3q@prime.mdata.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: jhaakana@mits.mdata.fi's message of 2 Sep 1994 01:22:07 GMT In article <345unv$q3q@prime.mdata.fi> jhaakana@mits.mdata.fi (Jaakko Haakana) writes: There's been no real trouble from it really because it was only this particular case but I guess I can expect to see more trouble in the future with my disk. I wonder if it's some kind of problem with the kernel's ide+driver? I doubt it. Drives *do* develop faults, you guys, and it's silly to blame the software any and everytime something goes wrong. PCs can be misconfigured in literally millions of different ways, and the fact that they're going into the home market now means that a class of user who's never necessarily even touched a computer is now poking around inside and trying to get it to work. This is not to say that Jaakko's one of those users, but just to give you an idea of the tech support nightmare groups like mine now face! ["I put the CD in with the shiny side up, run for awhile, flip it back the other way and it then it WORKS FASTER, I'M POSITIVE!" - actual tech support call]. Likewise, hardware goes bad. Drives don't last forever, and it's unrealistic to expect them to, especially when the drives in question have often come out of *other* computers, sit on shelves, gotten drop-kicked a few times, and then it's suddenly "FreeBSD IS CRAP! ITS MAKING MY HARD DRIVE GO BAD!!!" sorts of messages. Sigh.. Jordan