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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New SNAP and swap problems
Date: 7 May 1996 20:56:06 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) wrote:

> /kernel: wd0s1b: hard error reading fsbn 3226 of 3200-3263 (wd0s1 bn 
> 4713626; cn 4676 tn 3 sn 29)wd0: status 59<seekdone,drq,err> error 40<uncorr>

Poor hardware.  Since i know John Dyson has been making good
experiences with his WD drive, i rather suspect a timing problem (or
interrupt problem) with the controller.  Perhaps also bus timing can
get into your way.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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