From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 17: 1:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from enigma.crypt-net.org (enigma.crypt-net.org [216.254.75.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F8E37B699; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:01:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from indigo (indigo.crypt-net.org [216.254.75.170]) by enigma.crypt-net.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2A62025; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:01:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:57:11 -0500 From: Matt White To: hardware@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Maxtor 80GB problems Message-ID: <1372888398.980625431@indigo> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.5 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="==========1372899094==========" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==========1372899094========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I have gotten the Maxtor 80GB drive working, thanks to the suggestions of = people on this list, especially Andrew Gordon. Thanks for the people who = were so quick to help out. Turns out that the Maxtor 80GB drives want 80 conductor cables even when = running in UDMA33 mode. Switching to an 80 conductor cable solved my = problems. I still received a single write timeout during newfs, but the = system recovered quickly. Andrew also suggested that I might switch to PIO = mode using this sysctl: sysctl -w hw.atamodes=3Dpio,pio,pio,pio The drive seems like it will perform the task I bought it for, which is = mass storage of relatively unimportant data. I don't think I'll be moving = my system and important user files over from my SCSI disk any time soon, = however. (This response was largely for the archives.) -Matt --==========1372899094========== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Mulberry PGP Plugin v2.0 Comment: processed by Mulberry PGP Plugin iQA/AwUBOnNubFWXXrbXrJ1MEQJT4ACghA63dQf4r9KxC28Ox8497KkzbNkAoNOU UfZ1chp3S7QKBjqtPPU5B2+b =jq+c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==========1372899094==========-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message