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From: Cort cort@cs.nmt.edu
Subject: b.com
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 19:50:56 -0400

I'm using a 40 meg seagate drive, it's not terribly old, though (perhaps 3 
years).

I tried the b.com you suggested and it still failed, but with a different 
error.  The hardwait and hardintr messages were the same but the panic 
was "panic: hardintr 2".  

Any suggestions on this or should I give up and buy an AT&T machine? :)

> which hard disc have you got on your 386/486 machine?
> (ie, make, size, type)
> you can try ftp'ing b.com from /pub/plan9/b.com on ftp.cs.york.ac.uk
> to see if that is better (or worse!).  there was a problem with the handling
> of certain older drives, but i can't remember whether i fixed it in b.com
> or devhard.c in the pc kernel.