From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Mar 24 22:59:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from fbsd.bosa.ca (cr1003901-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.37.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C01E937B71F for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 22:59:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kulraj@bosa.ca) Received: from ska1 (h207-230-227-196.dccnet.com [207.230.227.196]) by fbsd.bosa.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id AD81D158EB9 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 00:05:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <005201c0b4f9$6264bf40$64c8a8c0@asknet.com> From: "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account)" To: Subject: IDE Hard Drives Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:01:15 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_004F_01C0B4B6.53ED92E0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_004F_01C0B4B6.53ED92E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Seeking hardware advice, on which brand IDE drives are recomended to = work at ATA100. Problem :=20 ad0: 29319MB [59570/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66=20 Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle=20 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device=20 da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged = Queueing Enabled da0: 8748MB (17916240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1115C) ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 2111 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 2111 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 2111 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 2111 falling back to PIO mode Hardware : Gigabyte 7ZX Rev 5 (ATA100 compliant) AMD Athlon 800 Tekram 390F IBM 9.1Gb SCSI-3 Drive Fujitsu 30Gb Hard Drive The Fujitsu IDE drive is new, just added (and still empty) and therefore = right now it would be painless to remove and replace with a drive that = will not give those ICRC WRITE ERROR's. There are many posts in the mailing list archives about these and = related issues but everyone falls short of recommending a drive or even = sharing their experience about a drive that does work to full potential. = If anyone has a drive working at ATA66 or even better ATA100 please let = me know which brand. Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Is the issue the VIA IDE controller = and therefore I'm stuck with it?=20 Thanking anyone in advance for taking the trouble to reply. Kulraj Gurm ------=_NextPart_000_004F_01C0B4B6.53ED92E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Seeking hardware advice, on which brand = IDE drives=20 are recomended to work at ATA100.
 
Problem :
 
 ad0: 29319MB <FUJITSU = MPG3307AT>=20 [59570/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
 Waiting 15 seconds for = SCSI=20 devices to settle
 Mounting root from = ufs:/dev/da0s1a
 da0 at=20 sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
 da0: <IBM DGHS09V 03E0> Fixed = Direct=20 Access SCSI-3 device
 da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, = offset 15,=20 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
 da0: 8748MB (17916240 512 byte = sectors:=20 255H 63S/T 1115C)
 ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 2111=20 retrying
 ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 2111 = retrying
 ad0:=20 UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 2111 retrying
 ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE = ERROR=20 blk# 2111 falling back to PIO mode
 
Hardware :
 
Gigabyte 7ZX Rev 5 (ATA100 = compliant)
AMD Athlon 800
Tekram 390F
IBM 9.1Gb SCSI-3 Drive
Fujitsu 30Gb Hard Drive
 
The Fujitsu IDE drive is new, just = added (and still=20 empty) and therefore right now it would be painless to remove and = replace with a=20 drive that will not give those ICRC WRITE ERROR's.
 
There are many posts in the mailing = list archives=20 about these and related issues but everyone falls short of recommending = a drive=20 or even sharing their experience about a drive that does work to full = potential.=20 If anyone has a drive working at ATA66 or even better ATA100 please let = me know=20 which brand.
 
Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Is = the issue the=20 VIA IDE controller and therefore I'm stuck with it?
 
Thanking anyone in advance for taking = the trouble=20 to reply.
 
Kulraj Gurm
 
 
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