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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Subject: Re: [NetBSD 0.9] patch to wd.c for IDE controller weirdnesses Message-ID: <michaelv.757874748@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <2ga4l7$i75@explorer.clark.net> <2gea0a$18q@explorer.clark.net> <2geifb$a6d@darum.uni-mannheim.de> <2gg0fu$9bk@uuneo.neosoft.com> <2gh78j$nmd@explorer.clark.net> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 16:45:48 GMT Lines: 33 In <2gh78j$nmd@explorer.clark.net> ack@clark.net (Eric S. Hvozda) writes: >In article <2gg0fu$9bk@uuneo.neosoft.com>, >Peter da Silva <peter@news.NeoSoft.com> wrote: >>What is this 'you shouldn't check partitions on two WD drives at the >>same time? I've been running Bonkers for months under 386BSD like >>that (two Maxtor XT4380E and an Ultrastor 12F). Is this a NetBSD problem >>or an IDE problem? It sure didn't hit my ESDI drives. >I had the lockup problem with fscking two IDE's until I added -l1 to fsck >in /etc/rc, then the problem went away. Otherwise you have to make almost >all the scan orders in /etc/fstab 1 to make fsck do the right thing. It seems >to be a problem with fscking IDE drives in tandem. I had it with NetBSD, but >I dunno if the other kids in the *BSD family have the same problem... Once again, this is *NOT* a problem except in certain circumstances. I too have been running my machine like this for months (normal fsck with two IDE drives). I've never had a problem. It *does* work. It seems that it only works if you have swap on both drives, however, and I've always had swap on both drives. The problem isn't with fsck, but rather, it's probably one of the (many) hard to find bugs in the wd driver. I'm not sure I understand why you'd want to have two hard drives and *not* have swap on both of them, though. Doesn't seem like a very wise use of resources to me. Just MHO of course... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------