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Date:      Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:17:08 -0500
From:      "" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "" <jjramsey@pobox.com>, "James J. Ramsey" <jjramsey_6x9eq42@yahoo.com>
Cc:        "" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ATA problems with FreeBSD (was Revisiting the semirandom bug/issue in FreeBSD's ATA querying)
Message-ID:  <1043533028.3e330ce4418e4@mail.wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030125211310.33917.qmail@web10704.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20030125211310.33917.qmail@web10704.mail.yahoo.com>

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Quoting "James J. Ramsey" <jjramsey_6x9eq42@yahoo.com>:

> 
> --- "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> wrote:
> > I can't even guess what the problem might be, but
> > can you (or do you not
> > want to) work around it? 
> 
> If you read my e-mail again, you should find this:
> 
> "In the second setup, I scrounged up an ATA cable that
> I knew could handle ATA66. I used this newer cable to
> attach the hard drive to the motherboard, and I used
> the old cable to attach the CD-ROM to the motherboard
> as a secondary master. (The jumper for the CD-ROM was
> moved accordingly.) In this setup, the ATA querying
> problem went away, or at the very least, I could not

to be honest with you, I have ran Maxtor ATA/100 (same as promise, just has 
the label that says "maxtor") and a promise ata/66 controller without any 
problems at all; however, I have noticed those cards causing weird problems 
from time to time.


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