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From: osprey@wwa.com (Lucas D. Adamski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE Controller Problem
Date: 29 Oct 1996 21:03:33 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de), on 23 Oct 1996 22:41:56 GMT, gushed:
{ Yep. It looks like a timing problem. Perhaps the time your disks
{ need to ``settle'' is rather large, and by artificially defering the
{ disk probe (by entering UserConfig), you get the probe to succeed.
{ You could try to look into /sys/i386/isa/wd.c, into the function
{ wdprobe(), and try if bumping the timeout numbers or loop counters
{ will be of any help.
I basically gave up and swapped the hard drives around again... so now it
works, with the seagate as master and the conner as the slave, with FBSD
on the slave. Chalk it down to "get the right hardware next time" I
guess.
//Lucas.
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{ cheers, J"org
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