From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 23 05:33:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA19307 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 05:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bigpuppy.newell.arlington.va.us (mcnsisdn.newell.arlington.va.us [206.27.237.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA19266; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 05:33:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mnewell@localhost) by bigpuppy.newell.arlington.va.us (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA02559; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:29:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:29:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Newell To: questions@freebsd.org cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: "wdunwedge failed" on ASUS motherboards (possible fix?) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've seen in the list that green stuff can screw things up, and that Western Digital drives have a bug that makes it worse... In my case green was turned off and I don't have WD drives but I was still getting the errors. This was on a 2.5 system; I upgraded it to 2.5.1 in the hopes that the problem would go away [it didn't... :-(] I went into the BIOS to verify all the green stuff was off, and I noticed a parameter that set the onboard IDE controller into "disabled", "standard", "fast", and "fastest" modes. Mine was set to "fastest". I reset it to "standard" and POOF - we've been running over a week now with absolutely no errors (we were having daily crashes...) I didn't try "fast"; this is a low volume machine with few [easily annoyed] users so I just took the safe route... :-) Others having the wdunwedge problem with ASUS mother boards might want to try this. Much obliged, Mike +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein | | Affiliation: | are mine. You can take them or | | Address: | leave them. Flames to /dev/null. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Mike@Newell.arlington.va.us | http://www.newell.arlington.va.us | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | "Peace. It's wonderful!" Father Divine. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+