On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 09:31:38AM +0200, Johan Ihren wrote:
> I'm seeing the same thing, except in my case it is while trying to
> install 1.4 onto an old 486-machine (no PCI). I.e. what I see is
> basically:
> 
> wdc0:0:0: device timeout
>         type: ata
>         c_bcount: 0
>         c_skip: 0
> 
> over and over when booting from the install floppy. First I thought it
> must be broken h/w, but since other OSes (not to mention by name)
> install nicely it seems like a NetBSD problem.

It's not the same problem: it's not surprising to have some lost interrupt (
or other problems) with some combination of IDE hardware, and the code should
be able to deal with this (the problem Rick reported let me believe there is
a bug in the recovery code).
In your case it seem that *no* interrupts are never generated, maybe for
one specific command (because c_bcount & c_skip == 0, this is not a data
transfer which trigger the problem). I suspect here that maybe your drive is
not fully conformant, or that you have one of these "intelligent" IDE
controllers which does fabcy things ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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