From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 18:38:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D51DD37B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 18:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id e881cJF62480; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 21:38:20 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: lart@mfn.org ("graphics") Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA66 troubles under 4.0R vs 3.4 Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 01:33:17 GMT Message-ID: <39b84070.1385916732@smtp.sentex.ca> References: <0ad401c0186b$ddaddc20$c991f280@mfn.org> <20000907112141.H7718@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 Sep 2000 00:42:02 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Greg Lehey says... >> 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"? > >Hard read errors. Hard write errors. PIO fallbacks. These are >things you would normally expect only from a very-soon-to-be No, not necessarily. There are some compatility issues with particular IDE controllers using the ata drivers vs. the wd drivers. Especially some VIA chipsets as well as CMD. Also, you want to be using 4.1, not 4.0. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message