From owner-freebsd-qa Sat Dec 29 13:16:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56F8837B41B; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 13:16:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fBTLBug15694; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 16:11:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C2E336C.3080506@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 16:19:40 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ian j hart Cc: qa@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE (25 Dec) and IBM IC35L040AVER07-0 References: <3C2D5F07.C1001711@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <20011229091038.F81588-100000@titanic.medinet.si> <20011230001554.A457@grosbein.pp.ru> <3C2E179F.9020108@potentialtech.com> <3C2E2EA9.5FADADC@ntlworld.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ian j hart wrote: > 1 Cable length was definately an issue for me (40 way cable, VIA ATA33 > with > UDMA 66 drives). I would trust IBM on this one. > [stable archive 08/07/01 VIA 82C586 UDMA ICRC errors] I forgot to put in the last post that I reconnected the cable so that it did not exceed the length requirements. > 2 Get the latest BIOS and firmware. I'll take a look at that. > Then I turned off UDMA with sysctl. Are you referring to hw.ata.ata_dma? Can this bet set in /etc/sysctl.conf or must it be set in /boot/loader.conf? > IIRC this was a pc-chips BX pro. > > 4 There's a tool to set the mode of the drive. Worth a > try. Do you mean a tool from IBM? -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message