Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:24:11 -0600 From: "Justin L. Boss" <justin@alt-network.com> To: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 300GIG SATA drives Message-ID: <200501211724.12088.justin@alt-network.com> In-Reply-To: <1106297711.1011.96.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> References: <200501210242.57141.justin@alt-network.com> <1106297711.1011.96.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com>
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Sorry, yes 5.3R to be exact. I was also informed that this was covered in the stable list under the topic "Bad Desk". I look, and it pointed to Maxtor desk drives as being the problem. And yes I'm using a Maxtor disk. But it insinuated in the list that Maxtor large drives quality was bad and it was not a problem with FreeBSD OS. But I have installed Linux and NetBSD on the same drives without a hitch. I'm beginning to think it may be FreeBSD. Any insight would help. Help, Justin On Friday 21 January 2005 02:55 am, you wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 02:42 -0600, Justin L. Boss wrote: > > Is anyone having problems with SATA drives? I keep getting DMA errors > > that lock up the system. > > Assuming you are using FreeBSD 5.x then yes, this is a known problem, > there has been some traffic about this issue on this list in recent > months. I filed a pr about a specific case of this a few weeks ago but > it doesn't seem to have progressed. > > I have to say I think it is a major problem. It's becoming increasingly > difficult to build FreeBSD machines with up to date commodity PC > motherboards and large storage drives. SATA drives above about 200GB > often seem to suffer from this bug under 5.x, so you need 4.x, which > doesn't work with all up-to-date motherboards. So what do you do? > > Peter.
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