From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 28 3:59:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cliff.i-plus.net (cliff.i-plus.net [209.100.20.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 804E737B73C for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 03:59:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from troy@picus.com) Received: from abyss (abyss.dashit.net [209.100.22.250]) by cliff.i-plus.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA51121; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 06:59:33 -0500 (EST) From: "Troy Settle" To: "Jim C" , "unclemib" , Subject: RE: UDMA Problems Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 06:53:52 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <00022801244500.01267@njhome.enterit.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > | > | > | > | 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message