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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:44:33 -0800
From: Hal Weaver <hweaver@pinetel.com>
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To: Jason W <jason@welsh.dynip.com>
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Subject: Re: hard disk problems?
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Jason, I found the following query in this list's archives written by
you on Nov. 4, 2000:

>I have a brand new (few months old) western digital EIDE hard drive in my
>system. I am running 
>FreeBSD welsh.dynip.com 4.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #1: Fri Sep  8
>22:19:09 EST 2000     root@welsh.dynip.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ROLAND
>i386
>
>and all of a sudden I am getting a lot of error messages in my syslog
>refering to the hard drive and I hear the hard drive "ticking" off and on
>when there is much disk activity (ftp). The messages are

I have the same symptoms on my laptop's removeable IBM EIDE drive.  Did
you find a fix?

You further quoted somebody who said:

>"There is a work-around if you are installing FreeBSD 4.0 stable onto an
>existing system: add
>     /sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio
> to the beginning (just after #!/bin/sh) of /etc/rc and also /root/.login
>(for csh) and /root/profile (for sh)."

Having tried that, the final boot message before the login prompt said
something like:

hw.atamodes=pio,pio

... telling me that this attempted fix was rejected.

I'd appreciate knowing how you solved this hard disk problem.

Thanks in advance.

Hal

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