From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 03:36:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5A416A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:36:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE97A43D3F for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:36:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsdfsse@optonline.net) Received: from [192.168.0.28] (ool-43532b7b.dyn.optonline.net [67.83.43.123]) by mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I4U00DMJ4OWAY@mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:36:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:36:42 -0400 From: bsdfsse In-reply-to: <415B7D62.9040005@optonline.net> To: bsdfsse Message-id: <415B7F4A.3010800@optonline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) References: <415B7D62.9040005@optonline.net> cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ok, this is bad X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:36:33 -0000 My computers are trully going haywire. The subject of this thread was supposed to be: Ok, this is bad. "WRITE_DMA retrying...WRITE_DMA no interrupt but good status" Thunderbird also deletes messages after I read them, to where I do not know. All I know is, I get to read them once. :-( bsdfsse wrote: > > I solved these DMA problems on my server by replacing my ASUS > motherboard's IDE controller with an Adaptec 1200A RAID controller > (simply used as a different ATA controller). > > Now my workstation is getting a similar error. The machine is a 2 > year-old Compaq Presario 6024. > > What's up with 5.3-Beta6? Does it not work with regular Maxtor drives? > > I've been converting all my machines to FreeBSD, but I keep running in > to these showstoppers. > > Any suggestions? > > thx! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >