From owner-freebsd-qa Sat Dec 29 13:49:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com (pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com [213.105.93.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED02D37B405; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 13:49:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBTLnVk11677; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 21:49:31 GMT (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) Received: from ntlworld.com (alpha.private.net [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated) by pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with ESMTP id fBTLnK411670 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128 bits) verified NO); Sat, 29 Dec 2001 21:49:22 GMT (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) Message-ID: <3C2E3A60.BCC5A573@ntlworld.com> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 21:49:20 +0000 From: ian j hart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran 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> <3C2E336C.3080506@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Filter-Version: 1.7 (pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 Bill Moran wrote: > > 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? When I did this I was using "sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio" and putting it in /etc/rc. It looks like there's been some improvement on this see man ata. > > > 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? Yes. Cannot remember the name, sorry. > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technology > http://www.potentialtech.com -- ian j hart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message