From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 13 23:52:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA21955 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 23:52:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sun4nl.NL.net (sun4nl.NL.net [193.78.240.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA21947 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 23:52:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from spase1 by sun4nl.NL.net via EUnet id AA27488 (5.65b/CWI-3.3); Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:52:13 +0100 Received: from phobos.spase.nl by spase.nl (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15258; Wed, 14 Feb 96 08:49:21 GMT From: dutchman@spase.nl (Kees Jan Koster) Received: (dutchman@localhost) by phobos.spase.nl (8.6.11/8.6.11) id IAA00902 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:49:09 +0100 Message-Id: <199602140749.IAA00902@phobos.spase.nl> Subject: R.I.P. To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers Mailing list) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:49:08 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk /-----------v-\ AMD 486DX4-100 / \ 8Mb, 256kb / \ IDE 85Mb Seagate (?) / \ SCSI Seagate ST41200N | R I P | DEC RRD42 (cdrom) | | | LikeEver | boot, root and swap on IDE | | /usr and swap on SCSI | My faithful PC | | and companion for | | long rainy days | | | | | /\| \ |/ \/\/\/ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\///\/\/\/ Last night my system crashed, badly. I don't know what the cause is, so I'll report the incident here. I was playing with a newly-installed old cdrom player when my system stopped dead in its tracks. Glancing over at the console I saw a flash of the following message: <...> Illegal request <...> syncing disks 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 giving up. press any key to reboot... All this time the IDE drive led was lit, but there was no disk activity. The system is quite dead now. It won't boot from the IDE drive. If I try I get the message: Error: C:0 H:0 S:0 Error: C:0 H:0 S:0 Error: C:0 H:0 S:0 Error: C:0 H:0 S:0 The CMOS IDE autodetector detects the disk correctly. However, when I (floppy)boot MS-DOS, fdisk only finds the SCSI disk. I guess that's because the SCSI driver maps the drive over the BIOS C drive. Before I bring out the low-level formatters: - What's this `Illegal request' that I got? I don't know any more details. I was stupid enough to reboot the thing without noting the message. (Yes, I have been using MS-DOS <:( ) - What does that `5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 giving up' mean? I've seen the numbers before. They are very intriguing, what do they mean? - What's the `Error: C:0 ...' message. (Cylinder 0, Head 0, Sector 0 not readable? Now, let's see... Where did I leave the address to get the FreeBSD CD... Groetjes, Kees Jan ======================================================================v== Kees Jan Koster e-mail: dutchman@spase.nl Van Somerenstraat 50 tel: NL-24-3234708 6521 BS Nijmegen the Netherlands ========================================================================= Who is this general Failure and why is he reading my disk? (anonymous) =========================================================================