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Date:      Thu, 3 Apr 1997 17:15:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bad disk or bad setup?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970403171402.279D-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199704031634.JAA05225@cube.i-pi.com>

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On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Kenneth Ingham wrote:

> 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.

Perhaps.  How hot does it get in there?

This could also be caused by a bad cable or misconfigured/bad IDE
controller.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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