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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!card From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: [NetBSD 0.9] patch to wd.c for IDE controller weirdnesses Date: 5 Jan 1994 19:50:39 GMT Organization: Laboratoire MASI - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris - France Lines: 38 Message-ID: <2gf5mf$4je@vishnu.jussieu.fr> References: <2ga4l7$i75@explorer.clark.net> <explorer.757753457@tbird.cc.iastate.edu> <2gea0a$18q@explorer.clark.net> <2geifb$a6d@darum.uni-mannheim.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ares.ibp.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <2geifb$a6d@darum.uni-mannheim.de>, Peppermint Lucy <toor@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de> wrote: ] In article <2gea0a$18q@explorer.clark.net>, ] Eric S. Hvozda <ack@clark.net> wrote: ] >In article <explorer.757753457@tbird.cc.iastate.edu>, ] >Michael Graff <explorer@iastate.edu> wrote: ] >> ] >>My roomate has a Connor 350 as wd0 and a Maxtor as wd1. When booting, fscp -p ] >>hangs his box. ] >> ] >>If we boot single user, fsck (no -p) and then ^D to multiuser, it runs ] >>forever. ] >> ] ] Well it's a know bug in *BSD, that you shouldn't check partitions on ] two different wd-drives at the same time. So try changing the sixth parameter ] in /etc/fstab for the wd1 partitions. say from 2 to 3. Yes, it's a known bug and the solution is in the FAQ. To avoid this problem, recreate a kernel with swap enabled on both disks. The config file must contain: config "..." root on wd0 swap on wd0 and wd1 This causes the kernel to open wd0 and wd1 when it boots and there is no more problem with fsck -p. ] Cheers ] (I think i sent this in a mail to somebody) ] ] -- ] Bankers do it with interest (penalty for early withdrawal). -- Remy Card card@masi.ibp.fr "Maybe we're lying, then you'd better not stay But we could be safer just for one day"