From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Mar 30 05:20:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA06183 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 05:20:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from hda.com (ip19-max1-fitch.zipnet.net [199.232.245.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA06178 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 05:20:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA09293; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 08:12:11 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199603301312.IAA09293@hda.com> Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 08:12:10 -0500 (EST) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603291929.LAA02739@Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 29, 96 11:29:15 am Reply-to: hdalog@zipnet.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> Does anyone know of a way I can get THIS system stabilized? > > > >Turn the green mode crap off! It's utterly unacceptable for pretty > >much any UNIX system you can name (including Linux) to have one of its > >drives suddently decide to take a vacation. This thing must have some > >BIOS option for disabling it. > > Or perhaps a hardware jumper? If all else fails a program that reads a block every 30s or so. -- Temporarily via "hdalog@zipnet.net"... Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267