On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:28:02PM -0800, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
> 
> wd0: soft error (corrected) is the message I see (dmesg)

One of my machines does this:
wd0a: device fault reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd0 bn 79; cn 0 tn 1 sn 16), retrying
wd0: transfer error, downgrading to PIO mode 3
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 3
cd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 0, DMA mode 1
wd0a: device fault reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd0 bn 79; cn 0 tn 1 sn 16), retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)

It doesn't cause any problems though.  Basically it means the kernel wants
to use something "better" than PIO mode 3, but that's the "best" the disk
can do reliably.

> the network issue is still not resolved... my 
> guess is some bit of info needed was on a bad sector or something... when I 
> run sh /etc/netstart I get the messge
> writing to routing socket: File exists

This is expected.  It's doing all the network, so loopback is being rewritten
also, hence, the message.

> is the network device driver loaded? how would I know? what file exists? 
> should it? what should I do about this file?

OpenBSD uses one big kernel that has all the drivers statically compiled.
You can check dmesg to see if the hardware was detected and a driver 
assigned to it.  Try "grep ^ne /var/run/dmesg.boot".  /var/run/dmesg.boot
is a copy of `dmesg` from boot time, which is handy because many "messages"
can make the dmesg command useless.

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