From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 21 14:16:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tzeench.dhs.org (h24-70-93-66.ed.shawcable.net [24.70.93.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E8037B402 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:15:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (darren@localhost) by tzeench.dhs.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0LMFws00906 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:15:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from darren@tzeench.dhs.org) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:15:57 -0700 (MST) From: Darren To: Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG alright, to satisfy the question earlier, there wasn't any console information, the moniter was in sleep mode and wouldn't wake from it. second I went out and purchased a controller card(Hot Rod 66) which does support my harddrive(or drives up to 128 gigs). I am using the ata66 cables. the chipset is "HPT366 Ultra DMA66 IDE Controller". It's a pci bus card. this controller seems to work fine with my maxtor 13gig drive. Just occasionally panics on my maxtor 60 gig drive. I have an asus p5a motherboard I suppose this about solves my problem, I don't get the use of the ata66 mode, I just felt I would make these additional comments for anyone who was following the conversation -Darren On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Adam wrote: > You didnt mention anything about what motherboard, ide controller, and > cables you are using.. If you are using one of the new 80 pin ide cables > I would suggest trying it on a normal 40 pin cable as that forces it to > ata33 mode which seems to be stable for me. I have a HPT366 ide > controller and it doesnt seem to like the various drives I've tried on it > with an ata66 cable. I own a maxtor 80g and it blew chunks until I > changed the cable. > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Darren wrote: > > >alright, I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem that can be helped. > >but I wonder if anyone out there is having a similar problem. I have a > >maxtor 60 gig drive, whenever it approaches the 30 gig mark... we've never > >had a need to store more than that. it starts crashing. my system has > >frozen up two times in the last week. with the current incident I was in > >telnet over my lan from windows, decompressing a file and using cuteftp to > >download a different file. I heard a beep come from the > >computer(FreeBSD), and that was it... crashed... had to force a reboot > >by manually pressing the button. > > > >-Darren > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message