Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:54:35 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de> To: Kedar Sovani <kedarsovani@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange error Message-ID: <3B9CE23B.2050503@i-clue.de> References: <20010910154303.50386.qmail@web11306.mail.yahoo.com>
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Kedar Sovani wrote: >Hi, > > I tried installing 4.3 BSD on my machine from a >CD-ROM device. > > The installation progressed very slowly. The >reason being I encountered frequent errors of the >following sort: >" >ad0: WRITE command time out tag=0 serv=0 resetting >ata0: resetting device.. done >" > > >Because of this error the installation progresses so >slowly that i could get bin dist extracted after 2.5 >Hrs. > >May i have any suggestions for the same. > Check IDE cabling. Check hard disk mode (DMA, PIO, which PIO mode?) If nothing helps, throw away that disk (along with it's cable, of course). HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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