Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:22:12 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Larry Hammer <larrykh465@SoftHome.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD 4.9 questions about configuration Message-ID: <20040112132212.GD4577@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <200401101512.43418.larrykh465@SoftHome.net> References: <200401091257.26487.larrykh465@SoftHome.net> <20040109234237.GN5994@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <200401101512.43418.larrykh465@SoftHome.net>
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# larrykh465@SoftHome.net / 2004-01-10 15:12:42 -0800: > On Friday 09 January 2004 03:42 pm, you wrote: > > # larrykh465@SoftHome.net / 2004-01-09 12:57:26 -0800: > > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a > > > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42387790 of 4160-4163 (ad0s2 bn > > > 42387790; cn 2638 tn 132 sn 4) retrying > > > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42387790 of 4160-4163 (ad0s2 bn > > > 42387790; cn 2638 tn 132 sn 4) retrying > > > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42387790 of 4160-4163 (ad0s2 bn > > > 42387790; cn 2638 tn 132 sn 4) retrying > > > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn > > > 42379502; cn 2638 tn 0 sn 32) retrying > > > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn > > > 42379502; cn 2638 tn 0 sn 32) retrying > > > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn > > > 42379502; cn 2638 tn 0 sn 32) retrying > > > ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn > > > 42379502; cn 2638 tn 0 sn 32) falling back to PIO mode > > > in bois the hard drives pio mode is set to auto I have the options of > > > auto,and pio mode 1-5, I have tried to play with this abit but no > > > diference how do I either make the hard drive work with the udma mode > > > or configure the kernal to stay at pio mode in the first place? > > > > this error has several possible reasons, one of them being a crappy > > cable: > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-November/025669.html > after checking the cable to the hard drive it was the 80 wire 40 pin, in good > shape > > I pulled everything but the hard drive and booted, it fixed it, the cdrom that > I had setup as the slave on the ide0 bus seems to be conflicting, so I set up > the cdrom and zip on the second bus and marked the ide0 slave as "not > installed" in bios. > The UDMA ICRC errorer is gone and I now have UDMA 100 everything related to > storage works well now :>) aha. speed of both devices on the same cable is limited to the speed of the slowest device, IOW a hard disk (normally UDMA) + CDROM (normally PIO) on one disk means both run in PIO. I'm not sure wheter the ATA code could handle this more gracefully... -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html
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