Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:00:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Wailer <banshee@gabriella.abattoir.com> Cc: install@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install woes Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961106215937.12066Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611070118.RAA00802@gabriella.abattoir.com>
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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Wailer wrote: > Can a machine get any slower than this? 386/16, 8 meg ram, 320 meg > ESDI drive. I've gotten past the evil of spare sectors, I've made > the install program scan for bad blocks (of which there are 6)... > > but at some random interval into the install when copying from the > network, I get the dreaded disk timeout failure which kills all. > > interrupt time out > status 58<seekdone,drq> error 4<abort> > interrupt time out > status 58<seekdone,drq> error 1<no_dam> > > and then it all hangs. Is this the kernel not waiting quite long > enough for this slow slow machine to return? In the past (though > not recently) this machine successfully ran netbsd (and with only > 4 meg of ram too) so I'd like to think that the hardware isn't > damaged. Odd. It's possible that it's taking too long, but ...? Make sure no devices are using IRQ 15. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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