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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 23:47:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kedar Sovani <kedarsovani@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: strange error
To: Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de>
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  I tried changing the cables, changing options from
the BIOS, for DMA, PIO and their modes but nothing
helped. 
  I have a 4.3 Gb Seagate hard-disk with a VIA mother
board. I am running on an Intel Celeron 433Mhz
processor.
  The strangest thing is that' the same hard disk if i
use on another machine' it has no problems whatsoever.
So there's no problem with the hard-disk. I think.

  I don't know what to do. Even there is no technical
reply from any other people from other mailing lists,
as to, what the real problem is.

What do i do now?
KEDAR.
   


--- Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de> wrote:
> Kedar Sovani wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >       I tried installing 4.3 BSD on my machine
> from a
> >CD-ROM device.
> >
> >       The installation progressed very slowly. The
> >reason being I encountered frequent errors of the
> >following sort:
> >"
> >ad0: WRITE command time out tag=0 serv=0 resetting
> >ata0: resetting device.. done
> >"
> >
> >
> >Because of this error the installation progresses
> so
> >slowly that i could get bin dist extracted after
> 2.5
> >Hrs.
> >
> >May i have any suggestions for the same.
> >


The reply was,
> Check IDE cabling. Check hard disk mode (DMA, PIO,
> which PIO mode?)
> 
> If nothing helps, throw away that disk  (along with
> it's cable, of course).
> 
> HTH
> -Christoph Sold
> 


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