From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 6 18:11:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from maild.telia.com (maild.telia.com [194.22.190.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4F237BFFA for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:11:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Received: from d1o90.telia.com (d1o90.telia.com [195.67.216.241]) by maild.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA15067; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 03:10:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from stordatan.telia.com (t5o90p64.telia.com [213.64.7.64]) by d1o90.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA02408; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 03:10:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from partitur.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stordatan.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA68777; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 03:10:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Message-ID: <38ED3590.D3B786E6@partitur.se> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 03:10:40 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn Organization: Partitur X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: sv, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: C J Michaels Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA and UDMA References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG C J Michaels wrote: > > I had a similar problem. I don't know if this will apply to you at all > but maybe it'll help. > > 1. System bios has drive listed as LBA. I have to check BIOS. I'm not sure what it'll say; I'm running it remotely right now... > 2. Dangeriously dedicated disk. Hmmm... I don't use a dedicated disk (well I do, but "dangerously dedicated"; here's the disklabel): 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 128520 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 7) b: 321300 128520 swap # (Cyl. 8 - 27) c: 19746720 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1229*) f: 19296900 449820 vinum # (Cyl. 28 - 1229*) The odd thing is that both disk are completely identical in config etc. ... > So... I wiped the disk and the mbr. Explicitly set the drive to large in > the bios. Re-installed and all my errors went away, using UDMA w/o any > troubles at all. I dunno if this applies to you at all, but I thought I'd > make the post. Hmm... This might help, but I don't like the idea... Since I'm using vinum, I guess I *could* just wipe it out and then connect it and restore it inside vinum... $ sysctl hw.atamodes hw.atamodes: dma,---,pio,---, This seems to keep it stable... Odd... /Palle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message