From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 9 20:13:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailext12.compaq.com (mailext12.compaq.com [207.18.199.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E580152F9 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 20:13:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: by mailext12.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id B4C5C5782B; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:13:33 -0600 (CST) Received: from mailint11.im.hou.compaq.com (mailint11.compaq.com [207.18.199.189]) by mailext12.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3ADC54601; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:13:33 -0600 (CST) Received: by mailint11.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 5674255F02; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:13:26 -0600 (CST) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (unknown [16.158.59.135]) by mailint11.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA8D252D01; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:13:24 -0600 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA00767; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 17:04:33 +0800 (SGT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 17:04:33 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Soren Schmidt Cc: Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA lost contact Message-ID: <20000109170433.F515@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <200001050902.KAA41882@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001050902.KAA41882@freebsd.dk>; from sos@freebsd.dk on Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 10:02:53AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 5 January 2000 at 10:02:53 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Kris Kennaway wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: >> >>> The disk probably has problems with DMA mode (lots of older WD disks >>> has that). You only get WDMA2 mode since you controller is an older >>> Intel PIIX that can't do UDMA... >> >> Hmm..This disk was bought in about March 99..you're sure that's the >> reason? > > No, but I've had my share of bad experiences with WD disks in that > regard, I'll have to look up the modelnumber to be sure... I think the real issue is: did it work under DMA with the wd driver? If so, it should work with the at driver as well. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message