Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:40:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu> Cc: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks Message-ID: <20000510124017.C86264@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000509041401.F25972@cs.rice.edu> References: <20000509041401.F25972@cs.rice.edu>
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On Tuesday, 9 May 2000 at 4:14:01 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > About two days ago, I tested a machine with four IDE drives > each on its own cable as the master. All four drives were: > > ad0: 29311MB <Maxtor 53073U6> [59554/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA66 > > I used the motherboard controller to support two of the drives. It was a > > atapci0: <Intel ICH ATA66 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0 > > and a Highpoint-based ATA66 controller for the other two drives. The > Highpoint locked up with the "resetting devices" message as soon > as the system was stressed. I replaced the Highpoint controller > with a Promise ATA66 and didn't see any problems after that. (I've > never seen any problems with the Maxtor's on the Intel ATA66 controller > either.) > > In summary, same disks, three different controllers, problems only > occur with the Highpoint controller. (I believe the Abit BP6 uses > the Highpoint controller.) I've had these symptoms too, but with a Western Digital drive. I'm still trying to track them down. They don't happen when running on ata0 or ata1. Søren suspects it to be a problem with the drive. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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