Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 21:08:07 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Schuerger <schuerge@wjpserver.CS.Uni-SB.DE> To: George Vagner <freebsd@www.timandpatrick.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Harddisk problems Message-ID: <199911272008.VAA28840@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de> In-Reply-To: <19991127.15193000@cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com> from George Vagner at "Nov 27, 1999 03:19:30 pm"
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> 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
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