Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:23:35 -0600 From: rand@meridian-enviro.com To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, bryanh@meridian-enviro.com Subject: Re: 3ware problems Message-ID: <873dc56d54.wl@localhost.meridian-enviro.com> In-Reply-To: <877l1i5uwu.wl@localhost.meridian-enviro.com> References: <4.2.2.20010321211204.0308d800@192.168.0.12> <877l1i5uwu.wl@localhost.meridian-enviro.com>
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Mike-Smith> This is obviously a really weird case; possibly either an Mike-Smith> extremely narrow race, or some very borderline PCI issue. Mike-Smith> One question I should have asked, but don't recall whether Mike-Smith> you answered; are you using an AMD K7 system by any Mike-Smith> chance? We've seen some *very* weird behaviour with these Mike-Smith> controllers in some K7 systems. Mike-Tancsa> Just a shot in the dark, but could be something to do Mike-Tancsa> with the hard drives themselves ? Are these not the same Mike-Tancsa> units that people have been having problems with across Mike-Tancsa> the board on various OSes and IDE controllers ? e.g. see Mike-Tancsa> the thread Mike-Tancsa> Subject: Re: 2GB limit on gzip? Mike-Tancsa> on questions@freebsd.org. Mike-Tancsa> Different issue, but same model of drives (4 IBM 75GB Mike-Tancsa> DTLA) I have been using only Quantum IDEs on all my boxes Mike-Tancsa> save for a few 40 gig Maxtors on part of my news spool. Doug> I read those articles also. The troube is, all of our recent IDE Doug> drive purchases have been the IBM DTLA drives. :( We thought Doug> they were good drives. Until this, we *never* had a problem with Doug> them. We really don't have any other IDE disks around to try. Doug> I just copied a 5GB file and then did a cmp of the two, Doug> identical. I'll start a loop of coping the file and comparing Doug> them and let it run over night. I've now copied that 5GB file 30 times, and each time compared it to the original, and each time both the original and the copy were identical. I don't think this smells like the problem others are having with the IBM drives and an ATA-100 controller. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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