Date: 11 Jan 2003 08:13:32 +1300 From: James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz> To: Keith Mitchell <kmitch@guru.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA problems (still) Message-ID: <1042226012.32941.11.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20030110142540.GA1179@weenix.guru.org> References: <20030110142540.GA1179@weenix.guru.org>
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On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 03:25, Keith Mitchell wrote: > Then i saw some thread about how bad cables could potentially contribute > to this problem so I tried three different "new" cables I had. None of these > worked either so I went to the local computer parts store and purchased a > ATA100/ATA133 cable and that didn't work either. Have you tried using a good cable that you know works, from a different setup to see if it makes a difference? Maybe the cable you bought was a bad cable -- rare, but it could happen. Also, make sure you've connected the cables properly. > > So then I tried disable DMA, tags, etc: > > hw.ata.ata_dma: 0 > hw.ata.wc: 0 > hw.ata.tags: 0 > hw.ata.atapi_dma: 0 > > This still didn't work. Eek, thats no good. It should work fine with PIO mode since its not as stressful as DMA mode. > I should also mention that I have two other FreeBSD boxes here with similar > configurations to this box (same mb, same processor) but use a Seagate > ATAV drive. Both of those systems work fine. So I'm not sure if the > problem has something to do with the WD drives or if it has something to > do with the ATA6 support (for larger than 137GB hard drives). > > For reference the info on the two segate drives (both of these are configured > as master drives on chanell 0 of the onboard controller -- like wise a > LS-120 and CD-ROM/DVD-ROM are on channel 1) in their respective computers: <snip> > When I took the 180GB out of the FreeBSD box and replace it with the 200GB > drive, I put the 180GB drive in my Mac and it has been working flawlessly > over there since the middle of november. > > Has anyone had any luck with large hard drives or these WD drives? I can't > think of anything else to try. Have you tried a different motherboard? Perhaps the motherboard you were trying the WD HDDs on has a faulty IDE and/or PCI controller or maybe the motherboard itself is faulty. The fact it works on one computer but has problems on another seems to somewhat support my theory. Perhaps you could swap in your WD HDD onto one of your Seagate computers and see what happens then. It might also be intresting to put the Seagate on the computer that was running the WD HDDs and see if it shows the same problem as the WD HDD. I hope you find my suggestions useful. - James -- James Pole ICQ: 21721828 AIM: kiwijames1986 MSN: james.pole@paradise.net.nz SMS: +64-210-455-139 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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