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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 20:27:06 -0500
To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, current@freebsd.org
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At 7:04 PM -0600 12/6/04, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>On Thursday 02 December 2004 08:31 pm, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
>>  I have now switched from that Western Digital drive to a Seagate
>>  Barracuda 7200.7 120-gig (ST3120026AS).  The drive seems to be
>>  working fairly well, but now I sometimes see some combination
>>  like the following three lines:
>
>Out of curiosity, are you using (g)vinum or accessing the drive
>directly?  I migrated my partitions from the former to the latter
>and all of my DMA problems disappeared.

I noticed your message go by.  No, I do not use either vinum or
gvinum.  Just plain BSD partitions inside of DOS-style slices.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu