On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:58:41PM +0100, Torbjörn Lindquist wrote:
> Hi, I just bought a 20.5 MB IBM Deskstar HD for my P200 to install NetBSD
> in. The problem is it doesn't want to format the HD at all. When using
> sysinst to format the HD and install I get the following error:
> 
> pciide1:0:0: lost interrupt
>      type: ata
>      c_bcount: 512
>      c_skip: 0
> pciide1:0:0: device timeout, c_bcount=512, c_skip0
> wd0d: device timeout reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying
> 
> When it has found one disk.
> Later when I have set up the partition and the formating is going to start
> it says
> 
> Setting up the DOS partition table ...
> pciide1:0:0: timeout waiting for DRQ, st=0xd0, err=0x00
> wd0d: device timeout reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying

Is this the complete error message ? Do you have other devices on the
same IDE channel ? What IDE controller is it (the kernel should say it) ?

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