Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:40:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reverting to non-multi-sector mode problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980317123830.994Z-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <0EPX00MIEYLQSE@pobox1.oit.umass.edu>
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On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > I recently got a new hard drive. It's a Maxtor Diamondmax 3.2G UDMA > (my mobo does not support UDMA, oh well). It seems to work OK. Here's > what dmesg says at boot: > > > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0x80ff80ff on isa > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Maxtor 83240D3>, 32-bit, multi-block-16 > wd0: 3090MB (6328665 sectors), 6697 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > But after a while, I get a message like this: > > wd0s1e: reverting to non-multi sector mode reading fsbn 40816 of > 40656-40895 (wd0s1 bn 405360; cn 25 tn 59 sn 18)wd0: > status 51<rdy,seekdone,err> error 4<abort> > > Is this something I should worry about? As I said, it seems to be > working, but I never see this with my other disk. I seem to remember another Maxtor having the same problem. I don't think it's anything important, but you should change the flags on wdc0 to 0x800080ff to disable multi-block-IO on that drive. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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