From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 05:22:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D8616A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 05:22:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilith.bellavista.cz (bellavista.worldonline.cz [212.90.245.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D6343D46 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 05:22:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by lilith.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D3263; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:22:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2B0AE2FDA10; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:22:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:22:12 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Larry Hammer Message-ID: <20040112132212.GD4577@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Larry Hammer , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200401091257.26487.larrykh465@SoftHome.net> <20040109234237.GN5994@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <200401101512.43418.larrykh465@SoftHome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401101512.43418.larrykh465@SoftHome.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD 4.9 questions about configuration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:22:21 -0000 # larrykh465@SoftHome.net / 2004-01-10 15:12:42 -0800: > On Friday 09 January 2004 03:42 pm, you wrote: > > # larrykh465@SoftHome.net / 2004-01-09 12:57:26 -0800: > > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a > > > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42387790 of 4160-4163 (ad0s2 bn > > > 42387790; cn 2638 tn 132 sn 4) retrying > > > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42387790 of 4160-4163 (ad0s2 bn > > > 42387790; cn 2638 tn 132 sn 4) retrying > > > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42387790 of 4160-4163 (ad0s2 bn > > > 42387790; cn 2638 tn 132 sn 4) retrying > > > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn > > > 42379502; cn 2638 tn 0 sn 32) retrying > > > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn > > > 42379502; cn 2638 tn 0 sn 32) retrying > > > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn > > > 42379502; cn 2638 tn 0 sn 32) retrying > > > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn > > > 42379502; cn 2638 tn 0 sn 32) falling back to PIO mode > > > in bois the hard drives pio mode is set to auto I have the options of > > > auto,and pio mode 1-5, I have tried to play with this abit but no > > > diference how do I either make the hard drive work with the udma mode > > > or configure the kernal to stay at pio mode in the first place? > > > > this error has several possible reasons, one of them being a crappy > > cable: > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-November/025669.html > after checking the cable to the hard drive it was the 80 wire 40 pin, in good > shape > > I pulled everything but the hard drive and booted, it fixed it, the cdrom that > I had setup as the slave on the ide0 bus seems to be conflicting, so I set up > the cdrom and zip on the second bus and marked the ide0 slave as "not > installed" in bios. > The UDMA ICRC errorer is gone and I now have UDMA 100 everything related to > storage works well now :>) aha. speed of both devices on the same cable is limited to the speed of the slowest device, IOW a hard disk (normally UDMA) + CDROM (normally PIO) on one disk means both run in PIO. I'm not sure wheter the ATA code could handle this more gracefully... -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html