Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 20:07:22 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: Jameel Akari <jakari@bithose.com> Cc: Josh Tolbert <hemi@scoundrelz.net>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Machine Check when booting dqa0? Message-ID: <20021021180721.GO14571@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.33.0210211133430.726-100000@poptart.bithose.com> References: <20021019034319.S77134-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> <Pine.OSF.4.33.0210211133430.726-100000@poptart.bithose.com>
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:43:31AM -0400, Jameel Akari wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Josh Tolbert wrote: > > > All my drive problems went away when I used a different IDE cable. > > *blinks* I've tried at least a half-dozen cables. I haven't used > a UDMA66 (80-conductor) cable because the CMD controller barely does > UDMA/33, and I don't think that I need a cable-select cable. Same issue. > I only get dqa0. If you can find another cable to test a second device > with, I'd really like to know if it works or not. > > > The IDE performance on this PC164 leaves much to be desired. I'm > > going to have to toss a SCSI card in this thing and just go SCSI. > > Indeed. I time it at 4.5MB/sec when forced to UDMA mode. NFS > over a 100Mb network will be almost twice as fast. I'm seeing 13-14MB/s on my PC164 with the onboard controller. ad0: 98166MB <IC35L100AVVA07-0> [199450/16/63] at ata0-master tagged WDMA2 ad1: 98166MB <IC35L100AVVA07-0> [199450/16/63] at ata1-master tagged WDMA2 The machine is running -current, but I don't think this should make a factor 3 difference. > Incidentally, does anyone have a listing of third-party > aftermarket SCSI controllers that get along with SRM? I've tried two > different Symbios controllers, and neither is compatible enough to be > functional. (Neither gives you dka* for disks; one lists as a NCR > controller in show conf, the other is just a random PCI device number.) Oliver Lehmann has setup a webpage with tested controllers. http://www.pofo.de/alpha-boot/index.php?field=chipset -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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