From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 9 20:11: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5521237B593 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 20:11:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA86470; Wed, 10 May 2000 12:40:17 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:40:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Alan Cox Cc: Soren Schmidt , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks Message-ID: <20000510124017.C86264@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000509041401.F25972@cs.rice.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000509041401.F25972@cs.rice.edu> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 [59554/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA66 > > I used the motherboard controller to support two of the drives. It was a > > atapci0: 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