From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Tolpin <dvd@davidashen.net>
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] i/o error: wrenwrite
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Date: Wed,  3 Mar 2004 17:45:23 +0400
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>
> What type of discs are they, ATA, SCSI, etc?

ATA.

cpu% cat /dev/sdC0/ctl
inquiry IBM-DTLA-307015                         
config 045A capabilities 2F00 dma 00550020 dmactl 00550020 rwm 16 rwmctl 16
geometry 29336832 512 16383 16 63


> Are they set to spin up automatically when power is applied?

I do not know. What are other options if I boot from it?

I am booting, see
kfs...version...time...

and then 

wrenwrite: i/o error

many times.

If I put enough debugging output into the kernel's atainterrupt,
the kernel is able to boot.

David