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Date:      Sat, 27 May 2000 01:12:35 -0600
From:      Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com>
To:        Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UDMA ICRC errors on FIC SD11 Athlon board and U66 HD -- huh?!
Message-ID:  <20000527011235.A8490@area51.v-wave.com>
In-Reply-To: <200005262203.RAA84505@celery.dragondata.com>; from toasty@dragondata.com on Fri, May 26, 2000 at 05:03:39PM -0500
References:  <200005161939.MAA02841@mass.cdrom.com> <200005262203.RAA84505@celery.dragondata.com>

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On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 05:03:39PM -0500, Kevin Day wrote:
> > > Ok, I just put together a new Athlon system, and am having a hell of a
> > > time trying to get the hard disks to work right.
[-- cut --]

Actually, this has been hashed over several times. I'm using several Athlon boxes with the same chipset (and some KX133) with
no problems. Usually those errors (according to Soren) are from interference on the ata-66 cable, or improperly spec'd ata-66
cables. Make sure the cable doesn't exceed 18" and that's it a verified ata-66 compliant cable. Make sure it's tied up and not
hanging near any of the voltage regulars or anything else that generates RFI.

It should also be noted that some "ATA-66" hdd's are not 100% ATA-66 compliant. WDC suffers from this, as does some Quantum
drives (which I use almost exclusively). I've not heard anything bad about IBM (which I've just started buying into). Maxtor
suffers from this problem terribly, not to mention problems with DMA transfers even @ ATA-33 (what do you expect for cheap
gear? :))

Hope that helps some, here's my dmesg from one of my boxes with relevant info (this one happens to be using WDC drives on a
ASUS K7M motherboard. I've had some problems with Epox KX7A [KX133, been resolved though] and no problems with ASUS K7V or
ABIT KA7 [KX133])

FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Mon May  8 10:09:39 MDT 2000
..
..
CPU: AMD-K7(tm) Processor (704.96-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x612  Stepping = 2
  Features=0x81f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,MMX>
  AMD Features=0xc0400000<AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
real memory  = 268369920 (262080K bytes)
..
..
pcib0: <AMD-751 host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <AMD-751 PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
..
..
isab0: <VIA 82C686 PCI-ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA66 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 4.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
..
..
ad0: 12971MB <WDC WD136AA> [26354/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA66
ad1: 12971MB <WDC WD136AA> [26354/16/63] at ata0-slave using UDMA66
acd0: CDROM <ASUS CD-S500/A> at ata1-master using UDMA33


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