Please check if your `/sys/kern/subr_disk.c' is at least Rev 1.27 (Jan 28, 2000).

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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)

> Folks,
>         I have scrounged yet another "under spec" laptop (at least NT
> is good for something around here - it won't run decently on older
> laptops so they become surplus :-), this time I have a Tecra 700CT.
> The problem I seem to be having is that the thing randomly locks up
> hard with the hard disk led on - I am not being dropped to ddb nor can
> I drop to ddb, the only thing I can do is power off.  I am suspecting
> that the IDE drive is claiming is supports some mode that is buggy on
> the drive.  This is happening with a version of current that is a
> couple of weeks old, it also happens with the 1.4.1 install floppy.  I
> have put the HD into my previous lapdog, a 410CDT, and it does not
> have a problem and I can put the HD from the 410CDT into the Tecra and
> that has no problem.  I would just swap the hard disks but the Tecra
> is a 1.2Gig vs 800Meg in the 410CDT, I would like the extra space and
> besides the 1.2Gig does not fit into the 410CDT case (I had to spring
> the case apart to make it fit temporarily ;-).
> 
> I have had a look at building a kernel with the flags on the wd* line
> set to 0x0fff, is this the right thing to do?  I want to dumb down the
> wd driver as much as I can to see if the HD works properly.  I believe
> that the thing used to work ok with NT but that does not mean much.
> 
> 
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> Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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