From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 20 10:34:59 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA03515 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 May 1995 10:34:59 -0700 Received: from casbah.acns.nwu.edu (kenny@casbah.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.52]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA03509 for ; Sat, 20 May 1995 10:34:58 -0700 From: kenny@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Received: by casbah.acns.nwu.edu (1.37.109.16/20.3) id AA015411296; Sat, 20 May 1995 12:34:56 -0500 Message-Id: <199505201734.AA015411296@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 Install problem To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 12:34:56 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 680 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sorry if this isn't the exact correct place to ask, but I have a question that isn't covered in trouble shooting section... upon beginning newfs after allocating partition space, i get the followng message... wd0a: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command writing fsbn 1008 of 1008-1023 (wd0 bn 210672; cn 52 tn 16 sn 0) wd0: status 0 error 1 The machine is a 100MHz Pentium Gateway 2000 with a WD 1GB IDE Drive... any ideas? thanks, ken -- Ken Gleason PRODUCT kenny@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Chicago's Premium Rock Export Interactive Training Resources, Inc. email me for tapes, t-shirts, Chicago, IL schedule and fan club info.