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Date:      Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:01:15 -0800
From:      "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account)" <kulraj@bosa.ca>
To:        <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>
Subject:   IDE Hard Drives
Message-ID:  <005201c0b4f9$6264bf40$64c8a8c0@asknet.com>

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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



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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Seeking hardware advice, on which brand IDE drives 
are recomended to work at ATA100.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Problem : </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>&nbsp;ad0: 29319MB &lt;FUJITSU MPG3307AT&gt; 
[59570/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 <BR>&nbsp;Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI 
devices to settle <BR>&nbsp;Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a<BR>&nbsp;da0 at 
sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0<BR>&nbsp;da0: &lt;IBM DGHS09V 03E0&gt; Fixed Direct 
Access SCSI-3 device <BR>&nbsp;da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 
16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled<BR>&nbsp;da0: 8748MB (17916240 512 byte sectors: 
255H 63S/T 1115C)<BR>&nbsp;ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 2111 
retrying<BR>&nbsp;ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 2111 retrying<BR>&nbsp;ad0: 
UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 2111 retrying<BR>&nbsp;ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR 
blk# 2111 falling back to PIO mode</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hardware :</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gigabyte 7ZX Rev 5 (ATA100 compliant)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>AMD Athlon 800</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tekram 390F</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>IBM 9.1Gb SCSI-3 Drive</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fujitsu 30Gb Hard Drive</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Is the issue the 
VIA IDE controller and therefore I'm stuck with it? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanking anyone in advance for taking the trouble 
to reply.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kulraj Gurm</FONT></DIV>
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