From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 11 06:25:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA11719 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 06:25:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (root@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA11683 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 06:25:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA20260 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:24:34 +0800 (WST) X-Authentication-Warning: haywire.DIALix.COM: news set sender to usenet-request@haywire.dialix.com using -f Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:18:12 GMT From: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Message-ID: Organization: Private FreeBSD site References: <199604082132.PAA27236@rover.village.org> Subject: Re: Odd IDE problem???? Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199604082132.PAA27236@rover.village.org>, imp@village.org (Warner Losh) writes: >I have a friend who has a Packard Bell machine. This has a IDE >controller built into the motherboard. When I try to boot FreeBSD >2.1R GENERIC on this, I get the following error messages: > >wd0: interrupt timeout: >wd0: status 58 error 0 >wd0: interrupt timeout: >wd0: status 50 error 1 > > >Smells like a hardware failure to me. I thought I'd double check here >to make sure before I suggested new hardware. > >Has anybody seen this before? > I had a lot of hard-disk problems recently when upgrading to a new motherboard. There seemed to be two different problems, a faulty harddisk (which I replaced) and then trying to run the onboard IDE too fast - by this I mean I was running the PCI bus at 40Mhz and getting similar types of errors, by turning it back down to 20Mhz the problems went away. /mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD - Free Unix for your PC| mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+