Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:44:33 -0800 From: Hal Weaver <hweaver@pinetel.com> To: Jason W <jason@welsh.dynip.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hard disk problems? Message-ID: <3AC4C601.150B5899@pinetel.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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