Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 19:11:44 -0700 From: Joel Mc Graw <jpmcgraw@home.com> To: lart@mfn.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA66 troubles under 4.0R vs 3.4 Message-ID: <39B84AE0.3A37DB86@home.com> References: <0ad401c0186b$ddaddc20$c991f280@mfn.org> <20000907112141.H7718@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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"? If the drive has really failed, it's very unlikely to be > connected to FreeBSD. > > > Now, since 3.4 reportedly does not suffer from these troubles, we > > are going to go back down to 3.4, however, we would like the > > transition to be as painless as humanly possible, so: Can we simply > > do an overlay of 3.4 onto a 4.0 system? > > No. > > > Also, is it known whether 4.1 has fixed the 4.0 ATA66 problems? How > > about 5-stable? > > Nobody knows if you don't know. How do you expect us to know what the > problem is? > I think this is an unhelpful answer. I ran into the same problem upgrading from 3.1 to 4.1r. I noticed that dmesg claimed that the cable was not DMA66 compliant (it was). After some research, I DID see a lot of similar complaints (drive dies) with one common thread: they were Quantum drives. Mine was a Quantum Fireball. Brand new. I went out and bought a Maxtor, and reinstalled FreeBSD. No problems. Interestingly enough, I still have the Quantum in the machine, but it's now the secondary master. > If you're running into a real problem with the new ata driver, you can > build a kernel with the wd driver instead. That's a lot less work > than reinstalling the system. But I can't decide whether that's the > case until I see some evidence. Obviously, building the kernel with the wd driver would be cheaper than buying a new drive... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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