From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 27 22:21: 0 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 50D4C37B816 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:20:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from notjames@mail.compasonline.net) Received: from [24.216.177.205] (HELO njhome.enterit.com) by mail1.noc0.hsacorp.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2.3) with ESMTP id 7863302; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:20:44 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by njhome.enterit.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id BAA01431; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:24:45 -0500 From: Jim C To: unclemib , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UDMA Problems Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:23:06 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain References: <200002271011.SAA07788@gryphon.itssa.curtin.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00022801244500.01267@njhome.enterit.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KMail-Mark: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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