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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:37:48PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 9:58 AM -0700 4/8/05, David O'Brien wrote:
> >Of 5 40GB drives I tried, only an IBM IC35L040AVVN07 worked (has
> >IC35L040AVVN07-0/VA2OAF0C firmware) works OK (no *_DMA timeouts)
> >at ATA66.
> 
> Did you test the other drives under solaris, or only under FreeBSD?
> 
> It might be that other hard drives will work better once the newest
> ATA support is committed.

Only FreeBSD -- this is my FreeBSD Sparc64 machine.  I dual boot Solaris
at times, but I wasn't installing Solaris on it until I had a good
FreeBSD installation.

I did also try ATAmkIII{j,k} with the same results.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)