Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:22:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ye' olde IDE drive problems... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980306112118.26185E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34FFB35A.12DD74E6@tdx.co.uk>
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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > _ANYWAY_ > > The good news is I solved the problem... Looking through LINT I decided to > fiddle with the flags for wdc0... The drive will hapily work with 'Multi-Block > I/O' on (the drive reckons it supports 16 block mode), but not with 32 bit > transfers on. > > As soon as 32 bit transfers are on - the system gets Interrupt Timeouts etc. Ah, the **disk** was going on vacation. I was in the right ballpark after all :) > I'm not really worried about 32 bit transfers at the moment, they would be > nice (and the old drive I used to use on the system must have supported them - > as they were still in my kernel config), but I can wait... What brand & model of disk is this? I'll keep it in mind. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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