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Date:               Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:30:21 +600 CDT
From:      "Larry Dolinar" <LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com>
To:        owner-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Just Baldrick <baldrick@rmsq.com>, fadorno@mail.gte.net, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:         Re: ed0 device timeout
Message-ID:  <1352AE413600@bldg1.croute.com>

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>From:           Fred Adorno <fadorno@mail.gte.net>

>Nick Liu wrote:
>> 
>>  On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Just Baldrick wrote:
>> 
>> > We had the same problem with ed0 'Device timeout'.  In our
>> 
>I am aware of all the above.  I used the softlink setup thru EZsetup.  I 
>changed the settings to match the kernel.  It has been working fine
>until I went into Windows yesterday after a warm boot.  Went I went back
>to FreeBSD after a warm boot the timeout errors appeared again.  It
>seems to go away if I do a cold boot and then go into FreeBSD. 

I've seen the same thing with Maxtech NX-16BT's due to some Novell ODI 
nonsense.  The particular machine in question is a dual-boot 486-66 I use for 
Novell and Unix backups, ergo the Novell stuff is a necessary evil.

Cold boots are the answer; something about ISA bus resets, IIRC.

hth,
larry



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