Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:03:36 -0000 From: Martin Tournoy <carpetsmoker@gmail.com> To: "Wil Hatfield" <freebsd@hyperconx.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DMA TIMEOUT Message-ID: <op.s7zyga2bipwu61@carpetsmoker.ictwerkplaats.org> In-Reply-To: <NGBBKBOMKLFOJCCDHPEOCEBGAAAB.freebsd@hyperconx.com> References: <NGBBKBOMKLFOJCCDHPEOCEBGAAAB.freebsd@hyperconx.com>
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:57:58 -0000, Wil Hatfield <freebsd@hyperconx.com> wrote: >> Did you use a 80- or 40-ATA cable? >> If you've configured your drives to do UATA-66 or faster then >> FreeBSD (or >> any other OS for that matter) will crash if you connect a second >> drive... > > It's an 80 wire. I have two drives on nearly all of my machines and never > had an issue with crashing until just recently. Started in 5.4, gone in > 6.1-PRE, back in 6.1-RC. It doesn't happen alot though under 6.1-RC. But > under 5.4 it was about every 8 hours on average. So in one sense 6.1 is > still saving my arsh. > > -- > Wil Hatfield > I suspect some kind of hardware problem, and not a software problem... If you can, boot into another OS, preferbly windows, since it will crash on just about anything, you can use your swap partition to install it...
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