Subject: Re: Can't install NetBSD 3.0 or 3.0.1 on my hard disk
To: Frank Petitjean <smalljim95@yahoo.fr>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/29/2006 22:32:30
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 07:47:27PM +0000, Frank Petitjean wrote:
> David Laight <david <at> l8s.co.uk> writes:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Looks as though NetBSD is failing to read directly from your CDROM.
> > All the earlier reads are done using BIOS commands.
> > 
> > > What can I do to fix the problem ?
> > 
> > Dunno 
> > 
> > 	David
> > 
> 
> I guess there is a bug in the IDE driver. I know that this chipset has bugs and 
> patched were issued for Windows.
> 
> If I write a bug report is there any chance that some one look at it ?

I don't think it's a but in the IDE driver. The error message doesn't
indicate a driver problem, but really that the drive properly reported
that it couldn't get some data from the media. To me it really does look
like a hardware issue.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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