From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 0:57:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 903BE37B401 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 00:57:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D81D43EBE for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 00:57:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (12-224-208-117.client.attbi.com [12.224.208.117]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A0E010112; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 00:57:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A42AB61; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 00:57:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3DF1B7E5.4010608@pantherdragon.org> Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 00:57:09 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Vladislav V. Zhuk" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA errors References: <005401c29d44$b0e24130$c00c460a@pro.tl.thomcorp.net> <3DF0DF91.1050002@pantherdragon.org> <20021207073513.GB34099@dru.dn.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vladislav V. Zhuk wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:34:09AM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: >> This is almost always the sign of a bad cable, but it can also be >> the logic board on the drive dying (though much rarer). Check your >> cables. Better yet, go to your local hardware store and buy a new >> ATA/100-spec cable, flat, not rounded, preferably with pull-loops. > > I don't think like you. I check my hardware and I consider that > problem in new ATA driver. Under FreeBSD 4.1.1 my hardware work > excellent. After 4.5 release I get more troubles with IDE devices. There was some pretty major changes in 4.5. It really should have been a .0 release. It was the same situation when 4.0 came out and they ditched the old ata code. > After reboot my system work excellent 2-5 days, than I get "read > timeout" problem with my CDROM and all system hang. There are a LOT of CDROM drives that don't work properly. I had a Toshiba XM-6402B drive that didn't work half the time, and a cheap 50X drive from Acer that works perfectly. About the only way to get a guarantee of having a good-quality CD/DVD drive is to buy SCSI. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message