From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 21 18:17:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5A837B71B; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:17:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f2M2HQS44551; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:17:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.2/8.11.2av) with ESMTP id f2M2HLS44542; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:17:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010321211204.0308d800@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:17:20 -0500 To: Mike Smith , rand@meridian-enviro.com From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: 3ware problems Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, bryanh@meridian-enviro.com In-Reply-To: <200103220121.f2M1KwE00867@mass.dis.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message