Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:34:55 -0700 (MST) From: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bad disk or bad setup? Message-ID: <199704031634.JAA05225@cube.i-pi.com>
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I have a brand-new Maxtor 82560A4 2.5GB disk on an older 486-DX2 66 ISA/VLB machine running a fresh install of 2.2.1. The disk is on the second IDE controller (first controller has another disk and a CD which work just fine). The disk is found at boot time. sysinstall partitioned and sliced it OK. It mounts OK. I can even use it some. However, whenever it gets heavily used (e.g. a tar | tar for copying from the old disk to new), I get the following message: Apr 3 08:11:03 fatman /kernel: wd2s1d: wdstart: timeout waiting for DRQ writing fsbn 65676 of 65664-65679 (wd2s1 bn 3369917; cn 209 tn 195 sn 47)wd2: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 4<abort> Or other messages of a similar nature (error 4 is sometimes another error). Is this disk bad? One idea I had was maybe thermal, as the disk works fine when I boot, but gets unhappy later. Is it too big and the BIOS getting in the way (there were warnings about old BIOSs in the disk docs)? This seems unlikely as FreeBSD seems to be able to access the whole thing. Thanks. Kenneth
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