From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 28 23:34:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07846 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 23:34:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA07725 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 23:34:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA01663; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 02:34:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199803010734.CAA01663@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: The 'dave rivers' memorial panic. In-Reply-To: <199803010707.AAA21114@usr09.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Mar 1, 98 07:07:07 am" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 02:34:07 -0500 (EST) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, rivers@dignus.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message