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Date:      Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:03:36 -0000
From:      Martin Tournoy <carpetsmoker@gmail.com>
To:        "Wil Hatfield" <freebsd@hyperconx.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DMA TIMEOUT
Message-ID:  <op.s7zyga2bipwu61@carpetsmoker.ictwerkplaats.org>
In-Reply-To: <NGBBKBOMKLFOJCCDHPEOCEBGAAAB.freebsd@hyperconx.com>
References:  <NGBBKBOMKLFOJCCDHPEOCEBGAAAB.freebsd@hyperconx.com>

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On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:57:58 -0000, Wil Hatfield <freebsd@hyperconx.com>  
wrote:

>> Did you use a 80- or 40-ATA cable?
>> If  you've configured your drives to do UATA-66 or faster then
>> FreeBSD (or
>> any other OS for that matter) will crash if you connect a second  
>> drive...
>
> It's an 80 wire. I have two drives on nearly all of my machines and never
> had an issue with crashing until just recently. Started in 5.4, gone in
> 6.1-PRE, back in 6.1-RC.  It doesn't happen alot though under 6.1-RC. But
> under 5.4 it was about every 8 hours on average. So in one sense 6.1 is
> still saving my arsh.
>
> --
> Wil Hatfield
>

I suspect some kind of hardware problem, and not a software problem...
If you can, boot into another OS, preferbly windows, since it will crash  
on just about anything, you can use your swap partition to install it...



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