From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 10 8:54:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DF037B409 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id SAA30452; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:03:45 +0200 Message-ID: <3B9CE23B.2050503@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:54:35 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010905 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kedar Sovani Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange error References: <20010910154303.50386.qmail@web11306.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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