Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 18:31:06 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 4.0 ATA on an old laptop failing Message-ID: <20000408183106.D19691@pir.net>
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Another 4.0 problem. I aquired an old NEC Versa/V50 this morning, to use as a quiet and cheap wavelan base station (it has two pcmcia slots). A quick/minimal 3.4-PAO install goes fine, seems to work well. I did an install via a pcmcia net card. 4.0 boots, I can find a set of IRQs/memory that gets pcmcia working then it scans devices and says on the DEBUG screen; ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 0 status 51 error=04 ad0: reading primary partition stable: error reading fsbn: 0 ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 0 status 51 error=04 ad0: reading primary partition stable: error reading fsbn: 0 and then says it has no disk to install to. The ata man page on 4.0 doesn't indicate any flags or tweaks I can make to this ... or what the errors mean (other than the fact it can't read the partition table). I'm making the possibly rash assumption that the disk is ok, since FreeBSD 3.4 and windows 95 (which was on it when I bought it) both work fine with it. Erm, clues ? Help ? Any further debugging I can do ? P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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