Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 03:10:40 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> To: C J Michaels <cjm2@earthling.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA and UDMA Message-ID: <38ED3590.D3B786E6@partitur.se> References: <NDBBILKDCLLECBCLPMBIOEBOCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net>
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C J Michaels wrote: > > I had a similar problem. I don't know if this will apply to you at all > but maybe it'll help. > > 1. System bios has drive listed as LBA. I have to check BIOS. I'm not sure what it'll say; I'm running it remotely right now... > 2. Dangeriously dedicated disk. Hmmm... I don't use a dedicated disk (well I do, but "dangerously dedicated"; here's the disklabel): 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 128520 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 7) b: 321300 128520 swap # (Cyl. 8 - 27) c: 19746720 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1229*) f: 19296900 449820 vinum # (Cyl. 28 - 1229*) The odd thing is that both disk are completely identical in config etc. ... > So... I wiped the disk and the mbr. Explicitly set the drive to large in > the bios. Re-installed and all my errors went away, using UDMA w/o any > troubles at all. I dunno if this applies to you at all, but I thought I'd > make the post. Hmm... This might help, but I don't like the idea... Since I'm using vinum, I guess I *could* just wipe it out and then connect it and restore it inside vinum... $ sysctl hw.atamodes hw.atamodes: dma,---,pio,---, This seems to keep it stable... Odd... /Palle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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