Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:26:17 -0500 From: fci <ces.fci@gmail.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com> Cc: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: After Partitioning a Drive: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRCerror (retrying request) Message-ID: <f093e36005080712264f2a0b7a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2hvf2hltle.f2h@mail.opusnet.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20050806135119.00f37a88@mail.farreaches.org> <104289012.20050806205943@rulez.sk> <3.0.5.32.20050806181109.00f1fda8@mail.farreaches.org> <42F55657.6080700@mkproductions.org> <2hvf2hltle.f2h@mail.opusnet.com>
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I had a disk that was giving the same errors so at the time I just disabled DMA (in loader.conf, hw.ata.ata_dma=3D"0") but I still wanted to fix it.. so yesterday.. the drive was set as primary (ad2) but I switched it to slave (ad3).=20 it seems fine now. clayton On 8/7/05, Gary W. Swearingen <garys@opusnet.com> wrote: > Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> writes: >=20 > > This is a brand new motherboard. Giga-Byte GA-K8NS Pro. FreeBSD > > 5.4-RELEASE (amd64). > > > > I was also doing some searching around and found a list post about > > FreeBSD 5 and DMA write problems: >=20 > I've got a GA-K8NSC-939 running 5.4-R (i386) with two 80GB using > UDMA100 that I've run pretty hard occasionally with dump/restore, diff > -r kind of operations, with no problems. I ran 5.4-R (amd64) lightly > for a few days without noticing disk problems. >=20 > You said one of your disks was a slave. I've read rumors that that's > a bad thing if its master is a CDROM, but I'd think it should just > run slower than it's capable of. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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