Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 02:04:53 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com> To: "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account)" <kulraj@bosa.ca> Cc: <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103250204060.55309-100000@mail.wlcg.com> In-Reply-To: <005201c0b4f9$6264bf40$64c8a8c0@asknet.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 IBM. They make the best hard drives, hands down. Robert Simmons Systems Administrator http://www.wlcg.com/ On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account) wrote: > Seeking hardware advice, on which brand IDE drives are recomended to work at ATA100. > > Problem : > > ad0: 29319MB <FUJITSU MPG3307AT> [59570/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a > da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <IBM DGHS09V 03E0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > 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? > > Thanking anyone in advance for taking the trouble to reply. > > Kulraj Gurm > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6vZiZv8Bofna59hYRA8x5AJ99yFm58aDX469rKpy3hyIAtHXntgCgqyYr E1IEW4hfbEeWYuVGIwmSZHU= =1Sny -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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