From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 19: 0:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.noc0.hsacorp.net (mail1.noc0.hsacorp.net [208.247.171.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C6F37BBF3 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 19:00:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jconner@enterit.com) Received: from [24.216.177.146] (HELO default.enterit.com) by mail1.noc0.hsacorp.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2.3) with ESMTP id 8230190; Sun, 05 Mar 2000 22:00:42 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000305220405.00c89f00@pseudonet.org> X-Sender: jconner@mail.enterit.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 22:04:46 -0500 To: "freebsd" , "Jim C" , "unclemib" , From: Jim Conner Subject: RE: UDMA Problems In-Reply-To: <005501bf86c9$a861e680$94082aa2@oemcomputer> References: <00022801244500.01267@njhome.enterit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Johnny Carson would say it... " I did not know that..." :) thanks!! - Jim At 07:38 PM 3/5/00 +0200, freebsd wrote: >Also, UDMA requires an UDMA cable with 80 conductors >in it, 40 for grounds... > >Maxtor drives now ship with this cable although i found >out before they did that cable length is a big issue >on these drives. > > >No 2 things can be the same, they cannot >exist in the same space at the same time. > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jim C >Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 8:23 AM >To: unclemib; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: UDMA Problems > > >Many people I have run across are not aware that UDMA drives require <= 18 >inch cables. Is the cabling you are using for your UDMA drives > 18 inches? > >Jim > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, unclemib wrote: >| I am experiencing a few problems with UDMA/66. >| >| system is an Abit BP6 with 2 Celeron 433's, 128MB >| memory , TNT video, and Pro100/10B NIC. I have tried both >| Quantum CR (8G) and KX (13G) drives. >| >| I keep getting a 'Read Timeout' message closely followed >| by a 'Resetting ATA' message. This works most of the time >| but every now and again the system completely hangs (I >| can consistently get these messages at random times during >| a make buildworld). >| >| Under 3.4 everything works flawlessly (except for disk speed). >| >| Has anyone else seen this? Should I wait till support for >| UDMA/66 matures in 4.X before using it? >| >| Regards unclemib@itssa.curtin.edu.au >| >| >| >| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >| with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today's errors, in contrast: Windows - "Invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll at 0032:A16F2935" UNIX - "segmentation fault - core dumped" Humanous Beingsus - "OOPS, I've fallen and I can't get up" ------------------------------- Jim Conner NOTJames jconner@enterit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message