From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 16:53:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA17990 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:53:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17981 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:53:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA14808; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:42:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604020042.RAA14808@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Dell EIDE drive data corruption with FreeBSD? To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:42:04 -0700 (MST) Cc: macgyver@infinet.com, terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Apr 1, 96 01:44:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > Is this the flawed IDE chipset that loses data if you interleave I/O? > > > > > > > > If so, the answer is to change your CMOS settings. > > > > > > Hmmm.... what chipset did they use? > > > > It's the RZ1000 chipset. > > Did Dell ever fix this? We're looking at getting a couple of them and I > would feel much better if they weren't using a known buggy IDE chip. The chip manufacturer hasn't fixed this. Do you mean "has Dell entirey redesigned their boards"? I think the answer is "no". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.