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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE Controller Problem Date: 23 Oct 1996 22:41:56 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <54m6vk$s7t@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5460pb$s9r@kirin.wwa.com> <54dfm0$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> <54k17r$qot@kirin.wwa.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E osprey@wwa.com (Lucas D. Adamski) wrote: > everything just fine. I'd think that it was a hardware conflict, except > that this problem always occurs when I use the default (enter) boot, and > it always works fine when I go through the -c (save & quit), even without > actually changing any of the settings. Anyone have any ideas what could > be causing this? Does the -c use the same kernel as the default? Yep. It looks like a timing problem. Perhaps the time your disks need to ``settle'' is rather large, and by artificially defering the disk probe (by entering UserConfig), you get the probe to succeed. You could try to look into /sys/i386/isa/wd.c, into the function wdprobe(), and try if bumping the timeout numbers or loop counters will be of any help. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)