From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 15 4:38:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37BD37B401; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 04:38:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-56339.0x50c6aa0a.abnxx2.customer.tele.dk [80.198.170.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA1443ED8; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 04:38:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@spider.deepcore.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.5/8.12.6) id h0FCcD5e025929; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:38:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soeren Schmidt Message-Id: <200301151238.h0FCcD5e025929@spider.deepcore.dk> Subject: Re: ATA problems (still) In-Reply-To: <3E255457.7010602@guru.org> To: Keith Mitchell Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:38:13 +0100 (CET) Cc: "randall s. ehren" , freebsd-hardware , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL98b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Keith Mitchell wrote: > I just tried swapping one of the seagate drives with the WD ATA6 drive > so that the WD was aatached to the same motherboard and cable where the > segate was happily working and the segate was attached to the same > motherboard and cable where the WD wasn't happily working. > > And the result was the same... the seagte is still happily working and > the WD drive is crashing the same as it was before. Hmm so the conclusion seems to be that the WD drive has problems, since we know the controller works and other large drives works. I have no idea why it would fail, could be subtle timing I guess ... If I win the lottery I'll buy one and hack at it :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message