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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!convex!constellation!exmidway.ecn.uoknor.edu!ryan From: ryan@exmidway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Ryan Meegan) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: wd0 error on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 Date: 2 Sep 1994 18:45:53 GMT Organization: University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network Lines: 39 Message-ID: <347rt1$dl@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> References: <345g16$icg@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: exmidway.ecn.uoknor.edu frank@vcsun1.tamu.edu (Franklin S. Cheng) writes: >I have a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 running on a Dell 486x66 machine for a couple of weeks. >Recently it comes up with some nasty error messages like the following, >"wd0:input timeout" >"wd0a: hard error writing fsbn 64 of 64-79(wd0 bn 724; cn 1 tn 1 sn 1) >.... >... >... >then it stops responding anymore, and I have to reboot it again to make >it up and running. I wonder if anyone has ever experienced this sort of >trouble, it's really bothering us. >thanks, I tried installing NetBSD 0.9 on a 486 machine a just before the summer. First, I tried and tried and tried with an mfm drive in it, getting those errors all the time. I finally got it to install (after 4 days of trying), and when it ran it kept coming up with those errors as well. Thinking it was the drive or controller, I switched to a large esdi drive, and kept getting the same errors... couldn't even get it to install on the esdi drive. After asking a few people, I was told several times that the 386 bsd driver routines for st506 type drives just basically sucked, and to give up until I could go ide of scsi... >Franklin. >-- >Franklin S. Cheng | <email>: frank@cheng.tamu.edu >Multimedia & Networking Lab | or frank-cheng@tamu.edu >Department of Electrical Engineering | tel:(W) 409-845-5774 (H) 409-268-8293 >Texas A&M University , College Station, Texas 77843 -- Frodo -=- The opinions expressed in this message are mine, and mine alone. frodo@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu -=- Unlike some mindless idiots, I don't let my 1@314-394-1306 -=- employer decide how I should think. So if this message in Hacking for Jesus. -=- any way offends you, deal with ME, not my employer.