From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 29 07:50:29 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA27223 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 07:50:29 -0700 Received: from asstdc.scgt.oz.au (root@asstdc.scgt.oz.au [202.14.234.65]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA27205 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 07:49:56 -0700 Received: (from imb@localhost) by asstdc.scgt.oz.au (8.6.12/BSD4.4) id AAA19916 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 00:49:37 +1000 From: michael butler Message-Id: <199504291449.AAA19916@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> Subject: IDE - 32bit .. yes but no :-( To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 00:49:35 +1000 (EST) Reply-To: imb@scgt.oz.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24beta] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1031 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a machine which has (literally) an el cheapo VLB IDE controller attached to a Quantum Maverick 540A. The problem with both the 950412 SNAP and the one before it is that, by default, it will try to set up 32bit mode. This would be fine, if it worked .. instead, having rebooted from a fresh install, a barrage of error messages such as .. /kernel: wd0e: soft error writing fsbn of (wd0 bn ; cn ...)wd0: status 50 error 10 .. fill the screen :-(. Needless to say, whilst the error message implies that it was probably recoverable, the stuff that's written is junk. There is no recognisable pattern in the block numbers, cylinders, tracks or sectors that would indicate a consistent math problem, Whilst I don't mind a system that tells me I've been too cheap (:-)), there's currently no way AFAIK of disabling this other than to hack the source (force the bcmp 32bit test == 1 in wd.c) but you can't get that far from this installation state .. michael