Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:39:27 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, rivers@dignus.com, tlambert@primenet.com Subject: Re: The 'dave rivers' memorial panic. Message-ID: <199803020339.WAA03710@lakes.dignus.com>
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John Dyson said: > > Terry Lambert said: > > > > We thought it was a bug in fsck and in the CG code. > > > > It turned out to be a longer-than-functional IDE cable. > > > > Try using a shorter IDE cable. > > > Slightly off subject: > > Even though Ultra-DMA/33 doesn't have higher clockrates than > 16MHz EIDE (Mode 4), it seems that the Promise controller and > WD drives DO NOT like out-of-spec IDE cables when running > Ultra-DMA/33. (Ultra-DMA uses both edges of the clock, so > there can be more transitions than EIDE, and the spectrum > will be higher in freq, also with more sensitivity to clock > skew, due to timing constraints.) > Umm... I don't know anything about this - but just a reminder; my "memorial" panic occurs with SCSI devices.... (but, I do have a reproduction on IDE as well.) Julian had mentioned he'd seen reproductions on different devices - but I didn't see the particulars. Or, are you guys discussing something else? - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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