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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 1996 07:33:42 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        dutchman@spase.nl (Kees Jan Koster), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers Mailing list)
Subject:   Re: R.I.P. 
Message-ID:  <199602141533.HAA04637@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Feb 1996 03:27:44 PST." <6498.824297264@time.cdrom.com> 

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>> I was playing with a newly-installed old cdrom player when my system
>> stopped dead in its tracks. Glancing over at the console I saw a flash
>> of the following message:
>> 
>>     <...> Illegal request <...>
>>     syncing disks 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 giving up.
>>     press any key to reboot...
>> 
>> All this time the IDE drive led was lit, but there was no disk activity.
>> 
>> The system is quite dead now. It won't boot from the IDE drive. If I try
>> I get the message:
>> 
>>     Error: C:0 H:0 S:0
>>     Error: C:0 H:0 S:0
>
>*OUCH*!
>
>What kind of SCSI controller are you using?  This might help us to narrow
>down the section of code that clearly blew some error check and ended up
>doing Really Bad Things(tm) to your system.
>
>I'm always sorry to hear about failure reports like this!  These are truly
>the worst types of software failure in FreeBSD (at least until someone's
>stupid enough to run his pacemaker from a daemon, anyway :-).

   The above looks like a hardware failure to me.

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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