From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 27 22:10:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from fbsd.bosa.ca (cr1003901-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.37.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B59A37B719 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:10:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kulraj@bosa.ca) Received: from ska1 (h207-230-227-196.dccnet.com [207.230.227.196]) by fbsd.bosa.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 16FC8158EB9 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:17:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <003001c0b74e$698aa580$64c8a8c0@asknet.com> From: "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account)" To: Subject: 4.3-RC - improved IDE support? Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:14:56 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org A few days ago I asked for advice to resolve this : 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 the unanimous feedback was that I should get an IBM IDE hard drive (the SCSI is already IBM). Well a strange thing happened, on whim (and since this is not a production server yet) I upgraded my system to 4.3-RC and now the system has no complaints on boot. I am still upgrading to an IBM hard drive, but would love to find out what is different in 4.3-RC thats resolved this? Kulraj Gurm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message