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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:55:18 +0100 (MET)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        dburr@POBoxes.com (Donald Burr)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Maxtor DiamondMax UltraDMA33 (Mode 2) drive?
Message-ID:  <199802111155.MAA25580@sos.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980211020713.dburr@POBoxes.com> from Donald Burr at "Feb 11, 98 02:03:05 am"

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There should be no problems at all, in fact I run two Maxtor DiamondMax
4.3G drives in DMA mode, no problems.

I'd say your disk is dying, I have allready had two 4.0G Maxtor die
this way....

In reply to Donald Burr who wrote:
> Is there any problems with using FreeBSD with UltraDMA 33 (UDMA mode 2)
> EIDE disks?  Or should they work fine?
> 
> Specifically, are there any caveats about running FreeBSD on a Maxtor
> DiamondMax 3.2 GB EIDE drive that's UltraDMA33 (Mode 2)?  Or should it
> work OK?
> 
> wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0x80ff on isa
> wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Maxtor 83240D3>, 32-bit, multi-block-16
> wd0: 3090MB (6328665 sectors), 6697 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> 
> (My motherboard is supports UDMA; I see it print that out in the BIOS
> messages)
> 
> The reason why I ask is that I've started getting some strange errors
> popping up.  They always occur when the system is moderately to heavily
> loaded (i.e. some swapping is going on).
> 
> wd0a: soft error reading fsbn 17955 of 17952-17967 (wd0 bn 17955; cn 1 tn
> 30 sn 0)wd0: status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 10<no_id>
> wd0a: soft error reading fsbn 12130 of 12128-12143 (wd0 bn 12130; cn 0 tn
> 192 sn 34)wd0: status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 10<no_id>
> wd0: interrupt timeout:
> wd0: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 10<no_id>
> wd0: interrupt timeout:
> wd0: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 0
> wd0s1b: soft error reading fsbn 17133 of 17120-17135 (wd0s1 bn 221933; cn
> 13 tn
> 207 sn 47)wd0: status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 10<no_id>
> wd0: interrupt timeout:
> wd0: status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 10<no_id>
> wd0s1b: soft error reading fsbn 35442 of 35440-35447 (wd0s1 bn 240242; cn
> 14 tn
> 243 sn 23)wd0: status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 10<no_id>
> wd0a: soft error reading fsbn 72147 of 72144-72159 (wd0 bn 72147; cn 4 tn
> 125 sn
>  12)wd0: status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 10<no_id>
> wd0s1b: soft error reading fsbn 20811 of 20808-20823 (wd0s1 bn 225611; cn
> 14 tn
> 11 sn 8)wd0: status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 10<no_id>
> 
> I have 32-bit transfers and multi-sector transfers turned on in my kernel
> config file, btw (if that matters).
> 
> Any ideas?  Please cc: me by email if possible.  Thanks!
> 
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