From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 22:01:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA01406 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:01:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA01397 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:01:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA12168; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:00:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:00:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Wailer cc: install@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install woes In-Reply-To: <199611070118.RAA00802@gabriella.abattoir.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Wailer wrote: > Can a machine get any slower than this? 386/16, 8 meg ram, 320 meg > ESDI drive. I've gotten past the evil of spare sectors, I've made > the install program scan for bad blocks (of which there are 6)... > > but at some random interval into the install when copying from the > network, I get the dreaded disk timeout failure which kills all. > > interrupt time out > status 58 error 4 > interrupt time out > status 58 error 1 > > and then it all hangs. Is this the kernel not waiting quite long > enough for this slow slow machine to return? In the past (though > not recently) this machine successfully ran netbsd (and with only > 4 meg of ram too) so I'd like to think that the hardware isn't > damaged. Odd. It's possible that it's taking too long, but ...? Make sure no devices are using IRQ 15. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major