From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 12 15:40:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9532A1566E for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 15:40:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from port2.annex8.radix.net (port2.annex8.radix.net [205.252.108.2]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA28227; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 18:37:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 18:37:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Seal To: Gary Schrock Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wdtimeout() DMA status 4 In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990412172412.00ab73b0@eyelab.msu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well it is a laptop, and has no cable. It just plugs directly into the unit. I just sent the drive back for a replacement today. Maybe I'll have better luck this time. Thanks, ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Gary Schrock wrote: > At 12:17 PM 4/12/99 -0700, Doug White wrote: > >On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote: > > > >> It's a new disk. I just replaced the old disk that was giving similar > >> behavior. Could it be the disk controller or just a coincidence? > >> > > > >Bad cable? > > I've just had seagate suggest to me for a similar problem that it could > just be that the cable I'm using is too noisy and that their drives are > very sensitive to interference in ultra dma modes. Basically they're > saying I might have to go to a ATAS cable for things to work properly. I > had been seeing similar errors to that (and managed to wipe out my freebsd > installation no less too). > > Gary Schrock > root@eyelab.msu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message