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From: wjin@rodin.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: wd0 error on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
Date: 2 Sep 1994 20:04:10 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
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In article <345jhf$kt8@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>In article <345g16$icg@news.tamu.edu>,
>Franklin S. Cheng <frank@vcsun1.tamu.edu> wrote:
>>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)
>
>I think you got some hardware problems there, boss.  Replace that
>drive soon - it's not a bug, it's a cry for help..

Jordan, I don't think that it is a hardware problem.
I had similar a similar problem also.
I have an 540M IDE drive which worked fine at work.
I took it at home to have more space, and when I tried
to install FreeBSD on this same HD, it caused the similar problem.
In my case, it worked for a few minutes, and after then
it continued to cause the above problem during the boot up.
At first time I thought that it was my HD's problem, but
I can run DOS/Linux on that HD without problem.

I really don't know what the problem is.
I did not have enough time to try harder and I just stopped installing
FreeBSD at home  :(

--
Woody Jin