Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 21:08:40 -0700 From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: dg@root.com, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness Message-ID: <38094BC8.B4040C5C@gorean.org> References: <199910120408.VAA04018@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > Well that's not good, since I have almost convinced my boss to replace > > the crappy IDE drives on our shiny new Intel N440BX mb's with scsi > > drives since the controller is built in. :-/ Does this look like a > > soluble problem, or is it just going to be a case of "don't do that?" > > Anything I can do to help mail me and let me know. > > You could try turning on DMA and discovering that these drives aren't > _that_ shitty. 8) Heh... well I've already enabled flags 0xb0ff, which has improved things somewhat, but our hardware vendor slipped in some IBM DeskStar drives on us, and they've been no end of trouble. He _may_ live to regret his "mistake." The good news is that the first machine rebuilt with the SCSI drives and using ncr0 + fxp0 is not showing any signs of trouble. Crossing fingers, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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