GeorgePS@XMission.com (George Peter Staplin) writes:

>I installed a new Samsung 80 GB drive, and I have found problems with
>NetBSD and the drive.  It worked well when I tested a small partition in
>Windows XP and copied/read files from it.

A timeout in wdc.c is too small for that drive. Apply the following
patch:

--- wdc.c       2003/09/24 11:16:43     1.114.4.3
+++ wdc.c       2004/02/26 20:19:37
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
        DELAY(1000);
        bus_space_write_1(chp->ctl_iot, chp->ctl_ioh, wd_aux_ctlr,
            WDCTL_IDS);
-       delay(1000);
+       delay(2000);
        (void) bus_space_read_1(chp->cmd_iot, chp->cmd_ioh, wd_error);
        bus_space_write_1(chp->ctl_iot, chp->ctl_ioh, wd_aux_ctlr, WDCTL_4BIT);
        delay(10);

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