From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 27 12: 8:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uni-sb.de (uni-sb.de [134.96.252.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1F215148 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 12:08:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schuerge@wjpserver.CS.Uni-SB.DE) Received: from cs.uni-sb.de (cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.252.31]) by uni-sb.de (8.9.3/1999070600) with ESMTP id VAA07268; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 21:08:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de (wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.247.42]) by cs.uni-sb.de (8.9.3/1999031900) with ESMTP id VAA21274; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 21:08:08 +0100 (CET) Received: (from schuerge@localhost) by wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/wjp-SVR4/1999052600) id VAA28840; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 21:08:07 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Schuerger Message-Id: <199911272008.VAA28840@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de> Subject: Re: Harddisk problems In-Reply-To: <19991127.15193000@cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com> from George Vagner at "Nov 27, 1999 03:19:30 pm" To: George Vagner Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 21:08:07 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL57 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Make sure that you are using an UDMA cable, I had various > errors on my Maxtor drive because i was using > just a plain old cable and not an UDMA cable. > > The UDMA cables have 80 wires in them, a wire between > each real conductor to shunt noise to ground. > > Just a thought... I don't know whether I have an UDMA cable or not, but my other IBM drive (10.4 GB UDMA) I've used for one year now works fine on the same cable. I'll try using another cable then. I'd like to know whether there is a tool for FreeBSD that actually FORMATS a slice with verify. newfs doesn't seem to really format every cylinder of the disk, but seems to write only the cylinder used by the UFS filesystem. Ciao, Thomas Schürger. http://www.menden.augustin.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message