Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:29:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Newell <mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: "wdunwedge failed" on ASUS motherboards (possible fix?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960923082243.217D-100000@bigpuppy.newell.arlington.va.us>
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I've seen in the list that green stuff can screw things up, and that Western Digital drives have a bug that makes it worse... In my case green was turned off and I don't have WD drives but I was still getting the errors. This was on a 2.5 system; I upgraded it to 2.5.1 in the hopes that the problem would go away [it didn't... :-(] I went into the BIOS to verify all the green stuff was off, and I noticed a parameter that set the onboard IDE controller into "disabled", "standard", "fast", and "fastest" modes. Mine was set to "fastest". I reset it to "standard" and POOF - we've been running over a week now with absolutely no errors (we were having daily crashes...) I didn't try "fast"; this is a low volume machine with few [easily annoyed] users so I just took the safe route... :-) Others having the wdunwedge problem with ASUS mother boards might want to try this. Much obliged, Mike +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein | | Affiliation: | are mine. You can take them or | | Address: | leave them. Flames to /dev/null. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Mike@Newell.arlington.va.us | http://www.newell.arlington.va.us | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | "Peace. It's wonderful!" Father Divine. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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