From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Sep 23 17:55:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE8D37B422 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8O0tAA83284; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 10:25:10 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 10:25:10 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: kafeend Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD RELEASE-4.1 Disk prob Message-ID: <20000924102510.I65590@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20000923141044.00799780@pop.crosswinds.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i 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 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [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