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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rutgers!twwells!bill From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: odd hard disk error installing netbsd-0.8 Message-ID: <CBMG17.Ir@twwells.com> Date: 12 Aug 93 00:58:18 GMT Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ Lines: 20 I'm running a system with a wd1007 esdi controller and a micropolis 1355 disk. I tried to do an install. There was a "wdc0: extra interrupt" shortly after the floppy kernel booted (and a "no swap (yet)" message). I followed instructions and things went to the point where various things were being copied to the hard disk. I got a message saying that copying /etc/disklabel failed due to an I/O error, and the following message, presumably from the kernel: ST0: 44 ST1: 2 ST2: 0 ST3: 41 cyl 1 hd 12 sec 2 There are two serious oddities here. One is that the drive only has *8* heads. The other is that the very first time I tried this, the installation made it quite a bit further, to the point of copying the things off the second install disk. One other item: low level formatting of the disk did not fix it. Another possibly relevant fact: the controller itself is fine; I'm using it at this instant. (I have two identical disks, which I physically swap. One for my running system and one for play.) Any clues?