From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 27 13:26:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.az.home.com (ha1.rdc1.az.home.com [24.1.240.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78EEC15247 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 13:26:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Received: from cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com ([24.14.27.99]) by mail.rdc1.az.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991127212649.MEDJ7363.mail.rdc1.az.home.com@cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com>; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 13:26:49 -0800 From: George Vagner Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 21:26:46 GMT Message-ID: <19991127.21264600@cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com> Subject: Re: Harddisk problems To: Thomas Schuerger Cc: George Vagner , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199911272008.VAA28840@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de> References: <199911272008.VAA28840@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de> X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.1; Linux) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Some drives exhibit this behavior while others do not, my seagate drive works fine under UDMA while my Maxtor drive chokes at any sign of it unless i use the "UDMA cable". Here are some faq's about it. http://www.ultracable.com/html/faqs.html >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 11/27/99, 1:08:07 PM, Thomas Schuerger=20 wrote regarding Re: Harddisk problems:= > > 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 Sch=FCrger. http://www.menden.augustin.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message