From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 6 14:39:18 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA17820 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 14:39:18 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA17811 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 14:39:12 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA02193; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 14:36:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510062136.OAA02193@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: system crash - help! To: rdm@ic.net Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 14:36:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org, terry@lambert.org In-Reply-To: <199510061626.MAA00316@port27.hubbard2.t.ic.net> from "Rob Misiak" at Oct 6, 95 12:26:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 836 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > This is interesting, yet impossible. 8-). > > > > Are you perchance running an RZ1000 based IDE controller? > > > > Err, I have absolutely no idea. :-) The controller (IDE) was a very inexpensive > one that I picked up from a local computer store when I was having problems > with my old one. I checked the documentation, and it didn't mention anything > like 'RZ1000' anywhere, so I suppose not. It's a basic ISA IDE controller > ("Acculogic sIDE-3", if that helps any). Check the chip. If you take an interrupt during a data transfer on an RZ1000, it will silently corrupt your data. About 1/3 of all IDE controllers use RZ1000's. You guys should get out morei: comp.sys.intel. 8-) Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.