Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 21:26:46 GMT From: George Vagner <george@vagner.com> To: Thomas Schuerger <schuerge@wjpserver.CS.Uni-SB.DE> Cc: George Vagner <freebsd@www.timandpatrick.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Harddisk problems Message-ID: <19991127.21264600@cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com> In-Reply-To: <199911272008.VAA28840@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de> References: <199911272008.VAA28840@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de>
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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 <schuerge@wjpserver.CS.Uni-SB.DE> 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
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