Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:17:20 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, rand@meridian-enviro.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, bryanh@meridian-enviro.com Subject: Re: 3ware problems Message-ID: <4.2.2.20010321211204.0308d800@192.168.0.12> In-Reply-To: <200103220121.f2M1KwE00867@mass.dis.org> References: <Your message of "Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:50:39 CST." <87u24m7kc0.wl@delta.meridian-enviro.com>
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At 05:20 PM 3/21/2001 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>This is obviously a really weird case; possibly either an extremely
>narrow race, or some very borderline PCI issue. One question I should
>have asked, but don't recall whether you answered; are you using an AMD
>K7 system by any chance? We've seen some *very* weird behaviour with
>these controllers in some K7 systems.
Just a shot in the dark, but could be something to do with the hard drives
themselves ? Are these not the same units that people have been having
problems with across the board on various OSes and IDE controllers ? e.g.
see the thread
Subject: Re: 2GB limit on gzip?
on questions@freebsd.org.
Different issue, but same model of drives (4 IBM 75GB DTLA)
I have been using only Quantum IDEs on all my boxes save for a few 40 gig
Maxtors on part of my news spool.
---Mike
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