From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 16 12:39:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-176-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F27837B82E; Tue, 16 May 2000 12:39:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA02841; Tue, 16 May 2000 12:39:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005161939.MAA02841@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Donald Burr Cc: FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Hardware Subject: Re: UDMA ICRC errors on FIC SD11 Athlon board and U66 HD -- huh?! In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 May 2000 00:02:51 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 12:39:57 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Ok, I just put together a new Athlon system, and am having a hell of a > time trying to get the hard disks to work right. > > First, some system details: > > Motherboard: FIC SD-11 board rev. 1.8, with the latest BIOS. > (AMD-751 north bridge, VIA 82C686 south bridge) > CPU: AMD Athlon 650MHz. > Memory: 128MB SDRAM DIMM > Hard Disk: Western Digital Caviar WD102AA 10.2 GB Ultra66 > (single drive only, no slave devices or CD-ROM's etc.) ... > ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 27984ata0-master: WARNING: WAIT_READY > active=ATA_ACTIVE_ATA > falling back to PIO mode I'm seeing exactly the same symptoms, but with a slightly faster CPU and an IBM disk. I'm not entirely sure what the real deal here is; it's possible that there may be eg. some timing values that aren't being set quite right for this board/chipset. 8( -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message