From owner-freebsd-current  Wed Jan  5  1: 2:57 2000
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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: ATA lost contact
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001050046020.87688-100000@hub.freebsd.org> from Kris Kennaway at "Jan 5, 2000 00:47:19 am"
To: kris@hub.freebsd.org (Kris Kennaway)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 10:02:53 +0100 (CET)
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It seems Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > The disk probably has problems with DMA mode (lots of older WD disks
> > has that). You only get WDMA2 mode since you controller is an older
> > Intel PIIX that can't do UDMA...
> 
> Hmm..This disk was bought in about March 99..you're sure that's the
> reason?

No, but I've had my share of bad experiences with WD disks in that
regard, I'll have to look up the modelnumber to be sure...

-Søren


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