From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 25 14:15:42 2003 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 8F0E937B401 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:15:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C592943E4A for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:15:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <2003012522154005100pn21se>; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 22:15:40 +0000 Received: by wastegate.net (Postfix, from userid 80) id C8E284846D; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:17:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from pool-151-201-43-117.pitt.east.verizon.net ( [pool-151-201-43-117.pitt.east.verizon.net]) as user mav@hive.wastegate.net by mail.wastegate.net with HTTP; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:17:08 -0500 Message-ID: <1043533028.3e330ce4418e4@mail.wastegate.net> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:17:08 -0500 From: "" To: "" , "James J. Ramsey" Cc: "" Subject: Re: ATA problems with FreeBSD (was Revisiting the semirandom bug/issue in FreeBSD's ATA querying) References: <20030125211310.33917.qmail@web10704.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030125211310.33917.qmail@web10704.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 / FreeBSD-4.7 X-Originating-IP: 151.201.43.117 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 Quoting "James J. Ramsey" : > > --- "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > I can't even guess what the problem might be, but > > can you (or do you not > > want to) work around it? > > If you read my e-mail again, you should find this: > > "In the second setup, I scrounged up an ATA cable that > I knew could handle ATA66. I used this newer cable to > attach the hard drive to the motherboard, and I used > the old cable to attach the CD-ROM to the motherboard > as a secondary master. (The jumper for the CD-ROM was > moved accordingly.) In this setup, the ATA querying > problem went away, or at the very least, I could not to be honest with you, I have ran Maxtor ATA/100 (same as promise, just has the label that says "maxtor") and a promise ata/66 controller without any problems at all; however, I have noticed those cards causing weird problems from time to time. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message