From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 21: 3:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f248.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729C337B400 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:03:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:03:36 -0800 Received: from 209.158.237.45 by lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 05:03:36 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.158.237.45] From: "Harris Kauffman" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: hard write error in 4.2 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:03:36 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Nov 2000 05:03:36.0321 (UTC) FILETIME=[BAC1FF10:01C059C1] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have attempted to install 4.2-release on a machine of mine. Most of the install goes fine, but I start to see "HARD WRITE ERROR" 's during the remaking all devices stage. Upon reboot, I receive the same error during activities which seem to need to write to the harddrive( a vi session, installing a new kernel, etc). This machine was running 4.1.1(and 4.1 and 4.0 before that) with no problems. The errors disappeared when I went back to 4.1.1, so I will run that for now... but does anyone know what would cause those errors in 4.2, and how I can correct that? The drive being installed on is an older western digital drive(1.5 gig IDE), and I have tried turning DMA off in the bios with no luck. ~Harris _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message