Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:49:08 +0100 (MET) From: dutchman@spase.nl (Kees Jan Koster) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers Mailing list) Subject: R.I.P. Message-ID: <199602140749.IAA00902@phobos.spase.nl>
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/-----------v-\ AMD 486DX4-100
/ \ 8Mb, 256kb
/ \ IDE 85Mb Seagate (?)
/ \ SCSI Seagate ST41200N
| R I P | DEC RRD42 (cdrom)
| |
| LikeEver | boot, root and swap on IDE
| | /usr and swap on SCSI
| My faithful PC |
| and companion for |
| long rainy days |
| |
| |
/\| \ |/
\/\/\/ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\///\/\/\/
Last night my system crashed, badly. I don't know what the cause is, so
I'll report the incident here.
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
Error: C:0 H:0 S:0
Error: C:0 H:0 S:0
<repeated indefinitly>
The CMOS IDE autodetector detects the disk correctly. However, when I
(floppy)boot MS-DOS, fdisk only finds the SCSI disk. I guess that's
because the SCSI driver maps the drive over the BIOS C drive.
Before I bring out the low-level formatters:
- What's this `Illegal request' that I got? I don't know any more
details. I was stupid enough to reboot the thing without noting
the message. (Yes, I have been using MS-DOS <:( )
- What does that `5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 giving up' mean? I've seen the
numbers before. They are very intriguing, what do they mean?
- What's the `Error: C:0 ...' message. (Cylinder 0, Head 0, Sector 0
not readable?
Now, let's see... Where did I leave the address to get the FreeBSD CD...
Groetjes,
Kees Jan
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Kees Jan Koster e-mail: dutchman@spase.nl
Van Somerenstraat 50 tel: NL-24-3234708
6521 BS Nijmegen
the Netherlands
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Who is this general Failure and why is he reading my disk? (anonymous)
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