Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:36:37 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2GB limit on gzip? Message-ID: <20010315113635.A2311@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <dhe1bts9q4u6tdpbd8re3gllqlvlc4uequ@4ax.com>; from mike@sentex.net on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:50:50AM -0500 References: <20010312213743.A7606@dan.emsphone.com> <20010312223210.A83134@northernbrewer.com> <SEN.984465737.22594891@news.sentex.net> <dd7sat4ke5rqbbc78f3h7ofmj0mguom82n@4ax.com> <20010313104513.A85546@northernbrewer.com> <5.0.2.1.0.20010313134412.040e25e0@marble.sentex.ca> <20010313150705.A86402@northernbrewer.com> <5.0.2.1.0.20010313160236.03ff3980@marble.sentex.ca> <SEN.984519006.297329908@news.sentex.net> <dhe1bts9q4u6tdpbd8re3gllqlvlc4uequ@4ax.com>
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Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) wrote: > On 13 Mar 2001 16:30:06 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: > > >Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) wrote: > > > >> > >> This sounds like some hardware issue (disk controller or memory). Post a > >> dmesg to the list. > > > >I am using an on-board Promise ATA/100 Controller. It would be pretty > >easy for me to put my drives on the regular IDE bus and see if that > >helps. > > As a few people mentioned on the STABLE list, it would appear to be a known > problem with your drives and controller in ATA100 mode. Were you able to > try them at ATA33 ? Did the problem go away ? I saw (and instigated) some of this on STABLE. The problem is definitely related to the peculiar hardware combination I have: ASUS A7V-133 mobo with IBM-DTLA drives. A quick search of groups.google.com reveals problems copying files under NetBSD, Linux, Windows 98, ME, and 2000 with the same hardware. So far I have tried: 1. Using the Promise ATA100 Controller with 40-pin IDE cables to force UDMA33; this did not help. 2. Using the other on-board VIA 82C686 ATA66 controller with ATA66 cables; unexpectedly, I also had problems copying large files! This was unexpected because I have another computer with the same drive and ATA66 controller, and I cannot reproduce the problem there. 3. Using the ATA66 controller with 40-pin IDE cables to force PIO4 mode. This is the only hardware setup that works! There are some BIOS upgrades available for the motherboard, however judging from comments on usenet newsgroups, this does not help. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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