Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:47:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: alk@pobox.com Cc: lcremean@tidalwave.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more psm problems, and an ide thingy Message-ID: <199901121947.LAA05231@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:34:48 CST." <13979.30872.154200.644754@avalon.east>
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> Quoth Lee Cremeans on Tue, 12 January: > : Oh dear, the UDMA interrupt bugs strike again...what speed is your PCI bus > : running at? > > 33MHz. 440FX SMP. > > The other drive seems to have no problems at all, and wd2 seems to > have problems only when accessing certain areas of the disk: The > problem can be reproduced consistently by copying from the same file > repeatedly. I had interpreted this as an indication of hdwe failure, > but perhaps it just means the timing depends on the disk area in use? It's typically indicative of slow error-recovery action on the part of the drive. You have a not-quite-dead-yet area on the disk, and the drive is taking its sweet time getting data off it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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