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Date:      Sun, 9 Jan 2000 17:04:33 +0800
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA lost contact
Message-ID:  <20000109170433.F515@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200001050902.KAA41882@freebsd.dk>; from sos@freebsd.dk on Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 10:02:53AM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001050046020.87688-100000@hub.freebsd.org> <200001050902.KAA41882@freebsd.dk>

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On Wednesday,  5 January 2000 at 10:02:53 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> The disk probably has problems with DMA mode (lots of older WD disks
>>> has that). You only get WDMA2 mode since you controller is an older
>>> Intel PIIX that can't do UDMA...
>>
>> Hmm..This disk was bought in about March 99..you're sure that's the
>> reason?
>
> No, but I've had my share of bad experiences with WD disks in that
> regard, I'll have to look up the modelnumber to be sure...

I think the real issue is: did it work under DMA with the wd driver?
If so, it should work with the at driver as well.

Greg
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