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Date:      Fri, 7 Apr 2000 02:26:10 -0400
From:      Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>
To:        C J Michaels <cjm2@earthling.net>
Cc:        Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA and UDMA
Message-ID:  <20000407022610.C12854@cokane.yi.org>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBILKDCLLECBCLPMBIOEBOCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net>; from cjm2@earthling.net on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 08:05:45PM -0400
References:  <38ED0C0B.124AB415@partitur.se> <NDBBILKDCLLECBCLPMBIOEBOCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net>

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Hi! I have been following this list. One thing I forgot to mention was that I
have my 18Gig drive set to CHS in the BIOS. I had some problems addressing other
partitions for boot (I have a DOS 5 boot partition for BIOS/FW upgrades).

--
cokane

C J Michaels had the audacity to say:
> 
> 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.
> 2. Dangeriously dedicated disk.
> 
> The sytem would lock up and report a good number of those errors listed
> below.  Timeouts and resets.  Well, after cvsupping and making world a
> couple times it started complaining about an timeout error reading a
> block, and it was a block near the end of the drive.  Also, I'd like to
> note that where there's a BSD slice at the begining of the drive, the BIOS
> never detects it right.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Just my 2 cents,
> 
> --
> Chris


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