From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 8 10:32:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ACC.sumy.net (ACC.sumy.net [194.153.148.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A00637B405 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:32:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from netdeeper.sumy.ua (radio-test.sumy.net [194.153.148.98]) by ACC.sumy.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g08IVbp78048 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128 bits) verified NO); Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:31:40 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <3C3B3B24.5000002@netdeeper.sumy.ua> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 20:32:04 +0200 From: Sergey Solyanik Organization: NetDeeper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: ru, uk, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nils Holland Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE Prefetch Mode... (was: VIA crashes) References: <20020108191800.A1154@tisys.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nils Holland wrote: > It currently seems that the "IDE Prefetch Mode" option in my BIOS was > causing my crashes reported earlier today. When I disable it (and enable > softupdates, which I previously suspected as causing trouble), I can do > what I want to do without any problems. > If anyone's had any similar negative experiences with the IDE Prefetch > option, I'd be glad to hear about it. In the meantime, I will let this I think that IDE Prefetch should be turned off on all machines around the world, scince it's total misunderstanding by hardware vendors. I never see the correct working IDE Prefetch on any (even on Intel/IBM branded) machine. And in all strange data corrupt/spontaneous rebooting cases disabling IDE Prefetch was a real trouble killer. Just search google for "IDE Prefetch" and you'll understand the size of a problem. May be this need be in FAQ/Hardware section? -- [...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message