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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.hk.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!selway.umt.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD, fd0d: hard error Date: 2 Sep 1994 21:52:06 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 47 Message-ID: <3486q6$dr6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <33j9hp$41l@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> <3453os$sru@steel.interlog.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <3453os$sru@steel.interlog.com>, David Shadoff <daves@gold.interlog.com> wrote: >Peter Howlett (b6ps@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca) wrote: >: Howdy, > >: fd0d: hard error reading fsbn 62 of 64-71 >: (ST0 44<abnrml,top_head> ST1 20<bad_crc> ST2<bad_crc> cyl 1 hd 1 sec 15 These are floppy errors. >I'm getting similar problems on FreeBSD 1.1 on an AHA1542B, using the same >drive (Quantum LPS540). The errors show up as timeouts on sd0, and >occasionally as an error something like: (AHA0:0:0 timeout). This is completely unrelated to the problems above. >These >happen a lot when doing any install, and they even happen when the >system is just sitting there (demons running, no net traffic, nobody >logged in, no swap). I suspect a hardware problem, since I've been running FreeBSD for a long time on a very similar combination. Aha1542B + quantum 1.8GB disk (big brother to yours). No problems whatsoever. > It's really bugging me, because the drive/controller > combo works, if gen'd for DOS. This means nothing. Dos doesn't push hardware to specifications, and so it's really easy to run with the hardware completely and utterly screwed up. (My box was totally mis-configured when I first installed 386BSD years ago). Check your SCSI termination, as this is typically the problem that faces most folks. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.