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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Strange install timeouts Date: 19 Jan 1997 11:39:38 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5bt15q$8vt@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5bqoee$km2@news1.iamerica.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34248 me@i.hate.spam.com (James S.) wrote: > wd1: interrupt timeout: > wd1: status 58<rdy, seekdone, drq> error 0 > wd1: interrupt timeout: > wd1: status 58<rdy, seekdone, drq> error 1<no_dam> Your drives don't seem to talk nicely on the IDE bus. Maybe swapping the controller out for another one would help, but mind you, this kind of errors is why many people (including me) hate IDE. It's fine as long as it works, but terrible as soon as a problem pops up. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)