From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 13 20:30:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA22250 for current-outgoing; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 20:30:43 -0800 Received: from moa.cc.monash.edu.au (george@moa.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.40.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA22235 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 20:30:36 -0800 Received: (george@localhost) by moa.cc.monash.edu.au (8.6.10/8.6.4) id PAA17007 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 15:29:58 +1100 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 15:29:58 +1100 From: George Scott Message-Id: <199511140429.PAA17007@moa.cc.monash.edu.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with wd0 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On my machine the boot time probes show: > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): > wd0: 80MB (164050 sectors), 965 cyls, 10 heads, 17 S/T, 512 B/S The first time I try to use wd0 (eg, using dd if=/dev/wd0 of=/dev/null) I get a pause and then: > wd0: wdcontrol: wdcommand failed reading fsbn 0wd0: status ff error 0 There seems to be two problems here: 1) Shouldn't this message be split over two lines? and, more importantly, 2) What is causing it? This machine is primarily an MS DOS machine; this drive is it's C:, and MS DOS has no problems with it. I boot FreeBSD diskless off another machine. It's running -CURRENT (delta 1174) though I have had this problem ever since I started playing with -CURRENT about 2 months ago. Does anyone have any pointers? George. --------------------------------------------------------------------- George Scott Senior Systems Programmer Caulfield Computer Centre Email: George.Scott@cc.monash.edu.au Monash University Fax : +61 3 9903 2100 900 Dandenong Road Voice: +61 3 9903 2248 Caulfield East, 3145 Victoria, Australia