Robert wrote:
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:55:18 -0400
Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote:
can be done about it, and 10 year old quirky PC hardware doesn't
attract a of interest...
As long as it's on [1] I hope it does?
I guess I'm not the only one who uses a Pentium 4 (or older stuff) for
firewalls and other systems, since they are very cheap to buy and
replace, and are more than sufficient (speed) for a lot of tasks.
regards,
Robert
[1] http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html
Well, as already stated, old hardware can be quirky, regardless of
actual OS support of it...
I noticed that your wd0 is a really old 15 gig ATA clunker, while you
also have access to a SATA controller on board with a modern disk attached.
The error you're experiencing suggests that either the old drive is
failing, the cabling between the drive and the controller is faulty or
the controller simply isn't that well supported in the first place (or
at all working - there have been buggy IDE/ATA controllers out there).
(Or that, like Ted indicated, there are problems with the bios, pci
controller, network i/f or with other hardware, or some sort of conflict
in between. When I've seen that particular error myself it's been even
money between a drive failure and some sort of hw conflict being the
culprit.)
My first suggestion would be to get rid of the dusty old drive and get a
SATA drive as the root volume, eliminating the ATA controller from the
equation. Not only would that likely do wonders for your system's MTBF,
there is a good chance it actually solves the problem too.
Regards,
/Benny
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