Subject: making floppies on i386 on IDE drive elicits "wdc: controller not active"?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.blrc.ma.us>
List: current-users
Date: 09/05/1994 01:04:01
On a machine at MIT (Dell OptiPlex 4100/MXV), when I try to build
1.0-beta install floppies, I get a lot of "wdc: controller not active"
and other IDE timeouts when I/O is in progress to the vnode device
filesystem. I tried this at home to an IDE drive, without any problems.
Any ideas what might cause this? Might this be related to the inability
of that machine to deposit a crash dump on the swap area?
==John
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