From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 12 11:51:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02086 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:51:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles228.castles.com [208.214.165.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02068 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:51:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05231; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:47:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901121947.LAA05231@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: alk@pobox.com cc: lcremean@tidalwave.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more psm problems, and an ide thingy In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:34:48 CST." <13979.30872.154200.644754@avalon.east> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:47:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Quoth Lee Cremeans on Tue, 12 January: > : Oh dear, the UDMA interrupt bugs strike again...what speed is your PCI bus > : running at? > > 33MHz. 440FX SMP. > > The other drive seems to have no problems at all, and wd2 seems to > have problems only when accessing certain areas of the disk: The > problem can be reproduced consistently by copying from the same file > repeatedly. I had interpreted this as an indication of hdwe failure, > but perhaps it just means the timing depends on the disk area in use? It's typically indicative of slow error-recovery action on the part of the drive. You have a not-quite-dead-yet area on the disk, and the drive is taking its sweet time getting data off it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message