Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 17:15:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad disk or bad setup? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970403171402.279D-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199704031634.JAA05225@cube.i-pi.com>
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On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Kenneth Ingham wrote: > I have a brand-new Maxtor 82560A4 2.5GB disk on an older 486-DX2 66 > ISA/VLB machine running a fresh install of 2.2.1. The disk is on the > second IDE controller (first controller has another disk and a CD which > work just fine). > > The disk is found at boot time. sysinstall partitioned and sliced it > OK. It mounts OK. I can even use it some. However, whenever it gets > heavily used (e.g. a tar | tar for copying from the old disk to new), I > get the following message: > > Apr 3 08:11:03 fatman /kernel: wd2s1d: wdstart: timeout waiting for DRQ > writing fsbn 65676 of 65664-65679 (wd2s1 bn 3369917; cn 209 tn 195 sn > 47)wd2: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 4<abort> > > Or other messages of a similar nature (error 4 is sometimes another > error). > > Is this disk bad? One idea I had was maybe thermal, as the disk works > fine when I boot, but gets unhappy later. Perhaps. How hot does it get in there? This could also be caused by a bad cable or misconfigured/bad IDE controller. 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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