From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 24 10:21: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thor.afnetinc.com (thor.afnetinc.com [206.40.232.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5653037B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 10:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 206-40-232-179-csc-0.afnetinc.com ([206.40.232.179]) by thor.afnetinc.com with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 13o7kt-0000Yg-00 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:20:56 -0600 From: efinley@efinley.com (Elliot Finley) To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 4.1.1 and ad0 write errors. Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:21:34 GMT Organization: System Hog (www.systemhog.com) Reply-To: efinley@efinley.com Message-ID: <39fdc3f2.122211392@mail.afnetinc.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG =46or all those that sent a me-too message stating that they were also getting errors like the following: ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# xxxxxx retrying You can see what access mode your drives are using by typing 'sysctl hw.atamodes'. You can downgrade the access mode of your drives by using 'sysctl -w hw.atamodes'. See 'man ad' for details. I've downgraded the access mode on my drive from dma to pio and it seems to be running fine, albeit a little slower. -- Do you manage an ISP? Do you have system hogs (line campers)? Do you have users that use multiple simultaneous ports? Want help? ---> http://www.systemhog.com <--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message