From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Mar 24 23: 4:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wlcg.com (mail.wlcg.com [207.226.17.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1102C37B71D for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:04:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsimmons@wlcg.com) Received: from localhost (rsimmons@localhost) by mail.wlcg.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2P74vc55324; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 02:04:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rsimmons@wlcg.com) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 02:04:53 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Simmons To: "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account)" Cc: Subject: Re: IDE Hard Drives In-Reply-To: <005201c0b4f9$6264bf40$64c8a8c0@asknet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 IBM. They make the best hard drives, hands down. Robert Simmons Systems Administrator http://www.wlcg.com/ On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account) wrote: > Seeking hardware advice, on which brand IDE drives are recomended to work at ATA100. > > Problem : > > ad0: 29319MB [59570/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a > da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled > da0: 8748MB (17916240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1115C) > ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 2111 retrying > ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 2111 retrying > ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 2111 retrying > ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 2111 falling back to PIO mode > > Hardware : > > Gigabyte 7ZX Rev 5 (ATA100 compliant) > AMD Athlon 800 > Tekram 390F > IBM 9.1Gb SCSI-3 Drive > Fujitsu 30Gb Hard Drive > > The Fujitsu IDE drive is new, just added (and still empty) and therefore right now it would be painless to remove and replace with a drive that will not give those ICRC WRITE ERROR's. > > There are many posts in the mailing list archives about these and related issues but everyone falls short of recommending a drive or even sharing their experience about a drive that does work to full potential. If anyone has a drive working at ATA66 or even better ATA100 please let me know which brand. > > Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Is the issue the VIA IDE controller and therefore I'm stuck with it? > > Thanking anyone in advance for taking the trouble to reply. > > Kulraj Gurm > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6vZiZv8Bofna59hYRA8x5AJ99yFm58aDX469rKpy3hyIAtHXntgCgqyYr E1IEW4hfbEeWYuVGIwmSZHU= =1Sny -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message