Date: 28 Apr 2005 08:09:56 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: zoltan sandor <dr_sandor_zoltan@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: harddisk problem in the 5.x series Message-ID: <44zmvjm7aj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20050426152124.64695.qmail@web20925.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050426152124.64695.qmail@web20925.mail.yahoo.com>
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zoltan sandor <dr_sandor_zoltan@yahoo.com> writes: > I have the following problem. I moved my system from > FreeBSD 4.11 to 5.4-RC3 by reinstalling everything. > The 4.11 system had no problem finding my MAXTOR hard > disk as ad3 as slave on the secondary IDE behind the > CDROM. The new 5.4 system indicates a lot of errors, > but finally accepts it and everything just works > fine. If I remove the hard drive the CDROM is > recognised without problems. My guess is that the > system tries to use higher PIO mode on the disk than > it is good for or something like that. Can anybody > explain how I can tune the kernel to avoid the error > messages? (BTW I have a GENERIC kernel.) dmesg > messages from the 4.11 and the 5.4-RC3 versions are > below. I'm nothing like an ATA expert, but I wonder whether it might now fail on 4.11 also... (bad cabling, etc.)
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