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Date:      Mon, 28 Feb 2000 06:53:52 -0500
From:      "Troy Settle" <troy@picus.com>
To:        "Jim C" <jconner@enterit.com>, "unclemib" <unclemib@gryphon.itssa.curtin.edu.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: UDMA Problems
Message-ID:  <NDBBLOMCGLFPEPCPJEKKKEFECAAA.troy@picus.com>
In-Reply-To: <00022801244500.01267@njhome.enterit.com>

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It's also worth checking to see if your BIOS is up to date.  A co-worker
recently bought a BP6, and was plagued with disk problems under NT.  Those
problems went away once he flashed his BIOS to a current version.  This was
all within the last week.

-Troy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jim C
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 01:23
> To: unclemib; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: UDMA Problems
>
>
> 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
> |
> |
> |
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