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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Continued ATA issues.
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Scott Boone wrote:

> I upgraded to FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 with a cvsup last night and am still
> having system freezes whenever I attempt to move files > 1MB to my 160
> gig ATA drive that is connected via an Promise TX2 Ultra ATA 100 PCI
> card.
>
> Any hints to help me diagnose this?  If there aren't any other suggestions
> my next step will be to go to FreeBSD 4.9 and verify it works there; I
> installed 5.2 at the same time I installed the drive.

That'd be a sane diagnostic step. This kind of failure smells a lot like a
hardware problem.

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