Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 03:27:26 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Pedro A M Vazquez <vazquez@IQM.Unicamp.BR> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD problems Message-ID: <767.832127246@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 May 1996 20:01:21 -0000." <199605142001.UAA01815@kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br>
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Pedro A M Vazquez wrote in message ID <199605142001.UAA01815@kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br>: > This is a 486DX 33 with 16M RAM and an Adaptec 1742 EISA controler running > 2.1.0-R the CD is an external Sun (Sony) we used in the past with Sparc > machines. > what bothers me it worked fine in the past with 2.0.5 and 2.1.0. We have used > it for serving data bases without problems, then it was unused for the > last 3 months. I double checked cables, termination, etc and all seems Ok. > Do I have a hardware problem here (this systems stays up forever if I'm not > using the CD) ? This is weird ... as far as I know, Sun CD's use 512 byte sectors for their transfers, whereas normal CD's use 2048 byte sectors... I'm surprised it worked at all. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.
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