Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 10:25:10 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: kafeend <jimmychonga@pop1.crosswinds.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD RELEASE-4.1 Disk prob Message-ID: <20000924102510.I65590@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000923141044.00799780@pop.crosswinds.net>; from jimmychonga@pop1.crosswinds.net on Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 02:10:44PM -0700 References: <3.0.6.32.20000923141044.00799780@pop.crosswinds.net>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Saturday, 23 September 2000 at 14:10:44 -0700, kafeend wrote: > Hello. I am getting some errors that i thought were hardware related > but when i checked them with some disk utils in windows they all > reported the hard disk being fine. > > ***Here is the output of uname -a*** > FreeBSD cx187260-d.peoria1.az.home.com 4.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #0: Wed Sept 20 04:44:16 GMT 2000 > root@usw4.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC > > ***Here is a list of my hardware*** > Pentium III 450 > DFI PA61 Rev. D1+ Motherboard > VIA 693/596 Chipset > 8.4gig Western Digital IDE > > ***Here are the errors*** > ad0:UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 393295 retrying > ad0:UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 524431 retrying > ad0:UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 524431 retrying > ad0:UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 524431 retrying > ad0:UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 524431ata0-Master: WARNING: WAIT_READY active=ATA_ACTIVE_ATA > falling back to PIO mode Basically, these messages are saying that the driver can't run the disk in DMA mode. This may be a problem with the driver or with the disk. The fact that Microsoft doesn't report any problems doesn't mean that it isn't having any. Let's take a look at your /var/log/dmesg.boot file. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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