From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 0:12:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from area51.v-wave.com (area51.v-wave.com [24.108.26.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3EB637B96C for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 00:12:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from flatline@area51.v-wave.com) Received: (qmail 8600 invoked by uid 1001); 27 May 2000 07:12:36 -0000 Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 01:12:35 -0600 From: Chris Wasser To: Kevin Day 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> References: <200005161939.MAA02841@mass.cdrom.com> <200005262203.RAA84505@celery.dragondata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005262203.RAA84505@celery.dragondata.com>; from toasty@dragondata.com on Fri, May 26, 2000 at 05:03:39PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 AMD Features=0xc0400000 real memory = 268369920 (262080K bytes) .. .. pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 .. .. isab0: at device 4.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: 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 [26354/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA66 ad1: 12971MB [26354/16/63] at ata0-slave using UDMA66 acd0: CDROM at ata1-master using UDMA33 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message