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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Strange install timeouts
Date: 19 Jan 1997 11:39:38 GMT
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me@i.hate.spam.com (James S.) wrote:

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

Your drives don't seem to talk nicely on the IDE bus.  Maybe swapping
the controller out for another one would help, but mind you, this kind
of errors is why many people (including me) hate IDE.  It's fine as
long as it works, but terrible as soon as a problem pops up.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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