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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:04:53 -0700 ()
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>
To:        Doug <doemill@shocking.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fixed! | Re: IDE Disk/Controller dead?
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.3.95.990710160352.-75935E-100000@akane>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05.9907101034090.5825-100000@fingers.shocking.com>

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> I got it running last night, its the weirdest thing too, I took the hard
> drive out, and I saw the jumper was in slave mode, So i put it in master,
> stuck it back in and started up, I got "HDD: Controller Failure: F1 to
> RESUME", SO i pressed f1 and booted the 3.2-release install floppy,
> everything probes normally and I then installed it via nfs, when i went to
> boot it, I got the same error, So i tok the drive out and switched it to
> slave, It wouldnt even start to boot the kernel, SO I put it back in slave
> mode, and pressed the space bar before it booted so I could drop to a boot
> prompt, I then took the case off and put the jumper back to master, THen
> typed 'boot', and it works perfectly, weird...

	Sounds like the drive is toast. Possibly the IDE card, but most
likely the drive. :(

						Rick



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