Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 05:14:18 -0700 (PDT) From: zoltan sandor <dr_sandor_zoltan@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: harddisk problem in the 5.x series Message-ID: <20050429121418.66467.qmail@web32410.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: 6667
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Hi, Thanks for your mail. Yes I tried again with 4.11 and it still works without the error messages. It does not really matter, because it works in 5.4 too. I just have to live with the error messages I guess. Thnaks anyway Zoltan --- Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > 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.) > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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