From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 13 11:23:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C03E1528A for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:23:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA02505; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 14:23:31 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA05581; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 14:23:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 14:23:00 -0500 (EST) To: Soren Schmidt Cc: joeo@nks.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Errors from the ata disk driver In-Reply-To: <199912130801.JAA33383@freebsd.dk> References: <14418.39524.290684.380673@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <199912130801.JAA33383@freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14421.18254.748286.640261@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Soren Schmidt writes: > It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > These are UDMA CRC errors, if you upgrade to the latest current, ata > > > knows to retry these, only if they persist, something is wrong. > > > However it could indicate cable problems, ie bad connectors or maybe > > > too long cables.. > > > > > > > He said the disk was attached to a Promise Ultra/33. Does the > > backdown to PIO on Promise Ultra controllers work now? I've been > > watching the commits to the ata driver, and haven't seen anything that > > makes me think that it would.. but I haven't tried it since last week. > > I've fixed it here (I hope), and it will be in the next batch of fixes. > I hope to get through my mailbox today :) Thanks. I'm running a kernel built with them now. If/when we see CRC errors, I'll let you know what happens. We don't see them frequently (a few times a month), so it might be a while. Thanks again, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message