From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 18:52:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB59A37B424 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 18:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e871pfx51948; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:21:41 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:21:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: graphics Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA66 troubles under 4.0R vs 3.4 Message-ID: <20000907112141.H7718@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <0ad401c0186b$ddaddc20$c991f280@mfn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <0ad401c0186b$ddaddc20$c991f280@mfn.org>; from lart@mfn.org on Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:35:08PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 6 September 2000 at 20:35:08 -0500, graphics wrote: > After seeing uncountable sudden "drive deaths" on *brand new* > drives, we did a little digging (thank god for the archives!) and > have noted the many similar tales of woe... "similar" doesn't mean "the same". What do you mean by "drive deaths"? If the drive has really failed, it's very unlikely to be connected to FreeBSD. > Now, since 3.4 reportedly does not suffer from these troubles, we > are going to go back down to 3.4, however, we would like the > transition to be as painless as humanly possible, so: Can we simply > do an overlay of 3.4 onto a 4.0 system? No. > Also, is it known whether 4.1 has fixed the 4.0 ATA66 problems? How > about 5-stable? Nobody knows if you don't know. How do you expect us to know what the problem is? If you're running into a real problem with the new ata driver, you can build a kernel with the wd driver instead. That's a lot less work than reinstalling the system. But I can't decide whether that's the case until I see some evidence. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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-questions" in the body of the message