Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:58:58 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Yura Socolov <fbsd-current.z.yurasocolov@xoxy.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA 8235 UDMA ICRC errors Message-ID: <407D3592.5040903@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20040414024308.GA6468@binary.net> References: <20040409042611.GA68595@binary.net> <20040413070315.GB31677@pleiades.aeternal.net> <20040414024308.GA6468@binary.net>
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Yura Socolov wrote: > I've tried replacing pretty much everything, including power supplies, drives > and motherboards. And even versions of FreeBSD. If it has a 8235, it doesn't > work, period. > > After talking off-line with Doug White, though, i am under impression that it > has something to do with the size of the drive as well. He says his kt400/8235 > works fine with an 80G drive. All my test drives have been 160G, and i don't > have a smaller drive that could do UDMA100. All of them failed on my kt400/8235. > > I solved it for myself by getting a KT600/8237 motherboard (DFI), and i still > think something is very fishy about 8235. Unfortunately, though, i don't have > resources to verify that or troubleshoot it further. I spent a week on this > already. Hmm, it could be that there are problems with the 8235 and 48bit mode needed for >137G drives. However, I dont have a 8235 in my ATA HW collection so I have no way of reproducing/testing/fixing this problem if thats the case. On top of that VIA is not very cooperative so getting docs that could help here is not very likely.. -- -Søren
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