From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 6 23:21:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from evil.2y.net (ztown3-2-32.adsl.one.net [216.23.21.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8A237C2C8 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:21:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cokane@evil.2y.net) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by evil.2y.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA13142; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 02:26:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 02:26:10 -0400 From: Coleman Kane To: C J Michaels Cc: Palle Girgensohn , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA and UDMA Message-ID: <20000407022610.C12854@cokane.yi.org> References: <38ED0C0B.124AB415@partitur.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from cjm2@earthling.net on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 08:05:45PM -0400 X-Vim: vim:tw=70:ts=4:sw=4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! I have been following this list. One thing I forgot to mention was that I have my 18Gig drive set to CHS in the BIOS. I had some problems addressing other partitions for boot (I have a DOS 5 boot partition for BIOS/FW upgrades). -- cokane C J Michaels had the audacity to say: > > I had a similar problem. I don't know if this will apply to you at all > but maybe it'll help. > > 1. System bios has drive listed as LBA. > 2. Dangeriously dedicated disk. > > The sytem would lock up and report a good number of those errors listed > below. Timeouts and resets. Well, after cvsupping and making world a > couple times it started complaining about an timeout error reading a > block, and it was a block near the end of the drive. Also, I'd like to > note that where there's a BSD slice at the begining of the drive, the BIOS > never detects it right. > > So... I wiped the disk and the mbr. Explicitly set the drive to large in > the bios. Re-installed and all my errors went away, using UDMA w/o any > troubles at all. I dunno if this applies to you at all, but I thought I'd > make the post. > > Just my 2 cents, > > -- > Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message