Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 19:16:41 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, root@io.cts.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, langfod@maui.com Subject: Re: Major problem with IDE hard drive and current Message-ID: <199509130916.TAA00257@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> It is probably a drive problem. What drives do both of you have? >I suppose. But why would these same drives not have the problem in >previous versions of FreeBSD (going back to 2.0 for me)? Because the cdrom code changed the test. >You know, I recall the boot display showing the name of the hard >drives before, so I was just going to suck in the relevant output from >dmesg. And lo: >wdreset: du->dk_status: 0x52 >wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0x80ff80ff on isa >wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <> >wd0: size unknown, using BIOS values This shows that the WDCC_READP command failed. It shouldn't fail for any standard IDE drive, especially a modern one that supports all those flags. >The drives are both Conners, but I'm not sure of the exact model >number (without resorting to opening the case ... only if you insist.) It's probably not important. But please find out why WDCC_READP is failing. (Call wderror() in wdgetctlr(). The only normal error is "abort" which means that the drive doesn't support the command.) Brucehome | help
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