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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!nntp.et.byu.edu!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!news.ridgecrest.ca.us!owens!gspiegel From: gspiegel@owens.ridgecrest.ca.us (Greg Spiegelberg) Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.0 - problems installing...BIG ones! Message-ID: <Cyzopv.E89@ridgecrest.ca.us> Sender: usenet@ridgecrest.ca.us (Ridgenet Usenet admin) Organization: Science Applications International Corporation References: <38t027$k75@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 07:27:31 GMT Lines: 24 In article <38t027$k75@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU>, Matthew Hogan <matth@hera.bf.rmit.edu.au> wrote: > wd0: wdcstart: timeout waiting for drq: status 0 error 0 >or I get > wdc0: lost interrupt: status 50 <rdy, seek done > error 0 > wdc0: lost interrupt: status 58 <rdy, seek done > error 0 Make sure the card is seated properly in the motherboard. > UltraStor 14F (sitting at address $310 : I know that the packaged kernel will only recognise it at $330) (dma 7/irq 15) > 540Mb West. Dig. IDE drive 0 ( 1048 cly. 16 heads, 63 sect) > This is the drive that I'm trying to install NetBSD to! What OS did you have previously on that drive? Does your BIOS or old OS have any sort of boot/partition record or hard drive lock on it? (worth asking) Does your BIOS have a Bootsector protection switch? Is in on? ---- Greg "TwoTone" Spiegelberg SAIC UNIX Systems Administrator RidgeNet, Ridgecrest, Ca. gspiegel@owens.ridgecrest.ca.us NAWCWPNS, China Lake, Ca. gspiegel@archimedes.chinalake.navy.mil My views are hardly reasonable or credible thus are contrary to others including SAIC's.