From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 19:36:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA05757 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 May 1996 19:36:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA05626 for ; Tue, 14 May 1996 19:35:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id DAA00769; Wed, 15 May 1996 03:27:26 +0100 (BST) To: Pedro A M Vazquez cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: CD problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 May 1996 20:01:21 -0000." <199605142001.UAA01815@kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br> Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 03:27:26 +0100 Message-ID: <767.832127246@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.