Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 02:26:10 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> To: C J Michaels <cjm2@earthling.net> Cc: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA and UDMA Message-ID: <20000407022610.C12854@cokane.yi.org> In-Reply-To: <NDBBILKDCLLECBCLPMBIOEBOCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net>; from cjm2@earthling.net on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 08:05:45PM -0400 References: <38ED0C0B.124AB415@partitur.se> <NDBBILKDCLLECBCLPMBIOEBOCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net>
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Hi! I have been following this list. One thing I forgot to mention was that I have my 18Gig drive set to CHS in the BIOS. I had some problems addressing other partitions for boot (I have a DOS 5 boot partition for BIOS/FW upgrades). -- cokane C J Michaels had the audacity to say: > > 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. > 2. Dangeriously dedicated disk. > > The sytem would lock up and report a good number of those errors listed > below. Timeouts and resets. Well, after cvsupping and making world a > couple times it started complaining about an timeout error reading a > block, and it was a block near the end of the drive. Also, I'd like to > note that where there's a BSD slice at the begining of the drive, the BIOS > never detects it right. > > 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. > > Just my 2 cents, > > -- > Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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