From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 17 13:14:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00914 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 13:14:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from st-lcremean.tidalwave.net (host-e186.tidalwave.net [208.213.203.186] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00908 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 13:14:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net) Received: (from lee@localhost) by st-lcremean.tidalwave.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) id QAA65508; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:14:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lee) Message-ID: <19990117161419.A65396@tidalwave.net> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:14:19 -0500 From: Lee Cremeans To: Karl Pielorz , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with new IDE's & -current Reply-To: lcremean@tidalwave.net References: <36A24D5E.F1875A83@tdx.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36A24D5E.F1875A83@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 08:51:42PM +0000 X-OS: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT X-Evil: microsoft.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 08:51:42PM +0000, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Hi, > > I have a system that's meant as a 'backup disk spool' - it has a 2Gb SCSI > drive to boot from, and then 2 x 16Gb IDE drives (IBM-DTTA-351680's). > > The system works fine so long as I stick to using the SCSI drives... If I use > the IDE's (e.g. backup another machine to them, tar / untar 'usr/src' to them) > I start getting problems, > > e.g. > > Jan 14 13:01:42 magpie /kernel: wd0: interrupt timeout: > Jan 14 13:01:42 magpie /kernel: wd0: status 58 error 0 > Jan 15 17:56:52 magpie /kernel: lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer > Jan 15 17:57:43 magpie /kernel: lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer > [snip] > The machine is a dual P90 (running SMP) - I get the problems even with a > single CPU kernel... It's running Neptune chipset (quite old) - and only > has 1 IDE channel. I would say that this has something to do with the DMA support, but since Neptune's IDE controller isn't DMA capable and PCI, that doesn't follow. Chances are that there's a not-quite-bad spot on your drive -- does it always seem to happen in the same place on the disk? I have no love lost for Neptune boards; we have two of them at work, and it's like trying to work with a 486 board with an OverDrive chip on it. I'm also wary of Intel boards in general, since they tend to think they're smarter than you. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Lee Cremeans -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet and WTnet)| | lcremean@tidalwave.net| http://st-lcremean.tidalwave.net/~lee | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message