Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 07:17:17 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: After Partitioning a Drive: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRCerror (retrying request) Message-ID: <2hvf2hltle.f2h@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <42F55657.6080700@mkproductions.org> (Mark Kane's message of "Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:31:19 -0500") References: <104289012.20050806205943@rulez.sk> <3.0.5.32.20050806135119.00f37a88@mail.farreaches.org> <104289012.20050806205943@rulez.sk> <3.0.5.32.20050806181109.00f1fda8@mail.farreaches.org> <42F55657.6080700@mkproductions.org>
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Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> writes: > This is a brand new motherboard. Giga-Byte GA-K8NS Pro. FreeBSD > 5.4-RELEASE (amd64). > > I was also doing some searching around and found a list post about > FreeBSD 5 and DMA write problems: I've got a GA-K8NSC-939 running 5.4-R (i386) with two 80GB using UDMA100 that I've run pretty hard occasionally with dump/restore, diff -r kind of operations, with no problems. I ran 5.4-R (amd64) lightly for a few days without noticing disk problems. You said one of your disks was a slave. I've read rumors that that's a bad thing if its master is a CDROM, but I'd think it should just run slower than it's capable of.
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