Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 07:33:42 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: dutchman@spase.nl (Kees Jan Koster), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers Mailing list) Subject: Re: R.I.P. Message-ID: <199602141533.HAA04637@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Feb 1996 03:27:44 PST." <6498.824297264@time.cdrom.com>
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>> I was playing with a newly-installed old cdrom player when my system >> stopped dead in its tracks. Glancing over at the console I saw a flash >> of the following message: >> >> <...> Illegal request <...> >> syncing disks 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 giving up. >> press any key to reboot... >> >> All this time the IDE drive led was lit, but there was no disk activity. >> >> The system is quite dead now. It won't boot from the IDE drive. If I try >> I get the message: >> >> Error: C:0 H:0 S:0 >> Error: C:0 H:0 S:0 > >*OUCH*! > >What kind of SCSI controller are you using? This might help us to narrow >down the section of code that clearly blew some error check and ended up >doing Really Bad Things(tm) to your system. > >I'm always sorry to hear about failure reports like this! These are truly >the worst types of software failure in FreeBSD (at least until someone's >stupid enough to run his pacemaker from a daemon, anyway :-). The above looks like a hardware failure to me. -DG David Greenman Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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