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From: me@i.hate.spam.com (James S.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Strange install timeouts
Date: 18 Jan 1997 14:58:22 GMT
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Ok here's my situation: I have two HDs' both on the same controller. The
partition that I wanted to install FreeBSD to is wd1s4. However, with both
2.1.6 and the 2.2 beta the install fails and the following error message
appears in VC2:

wd1: interrupt timeout:
wd1: status 58<rdy, seekdone, drq> error 0
wd1: interrupt timeout:
wd1: status 58<rdy, seekdone, drq> error 1<no_dam>

I diabled *everything* I don't need in the kernel, leaving only the console
driver, floppy driver and the wdc0 (IRQ 14) HD driver. And I still get the
same error message.

I looked in the "bug report database" and the closest thing I found was
report "kern/2094" for which there was not any fix :(.

Is it because I have two drives on the same controller? Should I completely
unplug the other one during the install? If I did this would the problem
come back when the drive was re-enabled?

Thanks for any help,
James

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