On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:34:06PM +0100, Phil wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I got a problem installing netbsd on various forms of a pc...
> think this should be some older problem, but i just didn't find
> anything about it...
> I tried to install netbsd on 386 and 486, a frend of mine had
> the same problem with a pII 333MHz:
> believe early when booting for the first install and (this time for sure :-) later when trying to install the system on the hd,
> I get timeouts reading/writing from it...
> 
> perhaps you can help me, I'll anyway go out to find some more detailed information ;-)

This is usually a hardware problem, interrupts don't get to the driver.
Some fancy "enhanced" IDE controller (especially the ones for older
ISA/EISA/VLbus machines) don't behave in a standart way.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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