From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 29 12:18:58 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA10379 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 12:18:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from jason.garman.net (pm106-14.dialip.mich.net [192.195.231.216]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA10372 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 12:18:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 333 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Dec 1996 20:18:47 -0000 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:18:46 -0500 From: garman@phs.k12.ar.us (Jason Garman) To: wh@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (Wolfgang Helbig) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re : FreeBSD gets stuck while copying installation files References: <199612291647.RAA00181@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: garman@phs.k12.ar.us X-Phase-Of-Moon: The Moon is Waning Gibbous (79% of Full) In-Reply-To: <199612291647.RAA00181@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>; from Wolfgang Helbig on Dec 29, 1996 17:47:05 +0100 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wolfgang Helbig writes: > Maybe the cause is the PCI-Dual-Ide-controller chip? > On my motherboard the CMD PCI0640B chip is working. > Yup. I have the same chip. > If anyone has similar experiences I would like to get a note on the > mailing list. > Same symptoms... I'm going to get another IDE controller rsn, put one of my hd's on it, and see if that helps any. I tried playing with the kernel, but the farthest I got was to get the kernel to put processes waiting for the other disk in uninterruptible sleep :-/ (i guess it's a bit better than freezing at least :-)) enjoy, -- Jason Garman http://www.nesc.k12.ar.us/~garman/ Student, Eleanor Roosevelt High School garman@phs.k12.ar.us