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Date:      Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:36:37 -0400
From:      "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: DMA TIMEOUT
Message-ID:  <20060414133633.F33DD43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <op.s7zyga2bipwu61@carpetsmoker.ictwerkplaats.org>

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=20
>=20
> >> Did you use a 80- or 40-ATA cable?
> >> If  you've configured your drives to do UATA-66 or faster then=20
> >> FreeBSD (or any other OS for that matter) will crash if=20
> you connect a=20
> >> second drive...


This is new one to me! I guess my 3 x UATA-100 are super drives of some =
sort not to crash!!
=20
> > It's an 80 wire. I have two drives on nearly all of my machines and=20
> > never had an issue with crashing until just recently.=20
> Started in 5.4,=20
> > gone in 6.1-PRE, back in 6.1-RC.  It doesn't happen alot=20
> though under=20
> > 6.1-RC. But under 5.4 it was about every 8 hours on=20
> average. So in one=20
> > sense 6.1 is still saving my arsh.
> >
> > --
> > Wil Hatfield
> >
>=20
> I suspect some kind of hardware problem, and not a software problem...
> If you can, boot into another OS, preferbly windows, since it=20
> will crash on just about anything, you can use your swap=20
> partition to install it...

I have had this case on one machine running FreeBSD 5.4, it would happen =
intermittently, but after replacing the power supply it appears to have =
resolved the issue. Also, once I noticed this problem with MegaRac G2 =
remote management card installed!

However, when you've upgraded to FreeBSD 6.0, did you test the system =
extensively for long period of time before upgrading to 6.1-RC ? If it =
worked well in 6.0 and stopped working in 6.1, I've to lean towards SW =
issue assuming all things remained the same.

Tamouh





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