From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 23 15:28:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A8EA16A420 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:28:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mj001@rogers.com) Received: from smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 935FF43D48 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:28:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mj001@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 78169 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2006 15:28:05 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=pUU+eXq04nkik24WKasuAtTy5kTKeFIBw+SUnKp9wlh05roP7rxYqDZ4iSe0apbgc6W7Pry+GJtpnKXFRnHqB7svESp6M2DRj996LtZcfrpZfAa6lPLj3dGjFpt037jKF6JyYBmehQGR5RmH/S9NSBnSwV1Rf+1KzRysxxCgE88= ; Received: from unknown (HELO chaucer.jeays.ca) (mj001@rogers.com@72.139.51.96 with plain) by smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Mar 2006 15:28:04 -0000 From: Mike Jeays To: ovidiu In-Reply-To: <4422BB30.2040007@unixware.ro> References: <97be9bec0603221420v7ac97162lc55d5f2013d50bdf@mail.gmail.com> <72cf361e0603222250i6084e1aara126fdb3321b7ed1@mail.gmail.com> <1143125645.13828.7.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> <4422BB30.2040007@unixware.ro> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:28:03 -0500 Message-Id: <1143127683.13828.13.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Martin Hepworth Subject: Re: Availability of a journaling file system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:28:06 -0000 On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 17:13 +0200, ovidiu wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: > > >On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 06:50 +0000, Martin Hepworth wrote: > > > > > >>Hi > >> > >>in freebsd this is called softupdates and can be enables using tunefs (see > >>the man page). > >> > >>If not quite journaling as it does things slightly differently, but achieves > >>many of the same effects, like reduced fsck time on boot. > >> > >>-- > >>martin > >> > >>On 3/22/06, Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I've had some problems earlier this year due to FreeBSD-6.0 crashing > >>>after a few hours of execution (perhaps it's mal-functioning hd's dma, > >>>but - simply put - I can't install FreeBSD 2 or 3 times a day to find > >>>out! ^^). And so I thought of journaling file systems. > >>> > >>>I think XFS is being ported to FreeBSD, but last news on the official > >>>page (http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/xfs/) dates from December > >>>12th, 2005 (and it's still read-only). So... > >>> > >>>Is there a journaling file system (rw ready) available? Which one? > >>> > >>>Another question: how can I completly diable hd dma? -.-" > >>> > >>>-- > >>>[]'s, > >>>Luiz Eduardo > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > >>>freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >> > >> > > > >You can disable DMA with the atacontrol command: for example > > > >atacontrol mode ad0 pio4 > > > >I have a Maxtor 40GB which won't work in DMA mode with FreeBSD, although > >it seems fine with other OSes. There is a hefty perfomance hit, of > >course! > > > > > > > > > Did you tried with different ATA cable? I've solved this kind of issues > every time by changing the cable or by lower-ing the settings for ATA, > like instead of ATA133 to use ATA100, or ATA66. > > #atacontrol list > #atacontrol mode ad0 ATA66 > > Try that, if it works, try ATA100. > Your hard drive, motherboard and your cable, all must be ATA100 to > support that speed. > > > > Yes, I tried different cables and different DMA settings. Only PIO mode works with this disk, motherboard and FreeBSD. It used to work with an earlier version of FreeBSD, I think 4.9. I don't know if FreeBSD has been a bit 'over-tuned' to work with this disk, or it is simply a disk that is starting to go bad. I don't really want to waste any more time experimenting with it - I have just put the disk on the shelf for now. -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/mike.jeays@rogers.com