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. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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