Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:36:15 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UDMA ICRC READ ERRORs Message-ID: <20001123163615.22055.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com>
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Thanks, it worked great! Andrew Gould --- Craig Huckabee <huck@nosc.mil> wrote: > Andrew, > > I've got the same problem with 4.2-BETA and an AMD > K6/2 500Mhz box, built > with an ASUS P5A, and a Western Digital hard drive. > I searched the mailing > list archives and found this fix : > > /sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio > > I added that line to /etc/rc near the top so it runs > each time the system > boots. Turns off UDMA mode, so performance suffers, > but the errors go away > (at least after /etc/rc runs they do, so a few may > sneak in before that) > > I have two other 4.2 systems with the same hardware > except they use Maxtor > hard drives that don't have this problem. > > If anyone knows of a better solution, pass it along. > I guess it is > possible (or should be) to somehow to turn of UDMA > in the kernel ? > > HTH, > --Craig > > > At 04:50 AM 11/20/00 -0800, you wrote: > >Good morning all, > > > >I have installed FreeBSD 4.1 on an AMD K6/2 450MHz > box > >and keep getting the following error message when I > >boot the computer: > > > >'ad0: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 4144087 retrying' > >There are more messages where the blk# is > different. > > > >At first I thought it might be the version of > FreeBSD > >or a hard drive problem; but I switched hard drives > >and installed FreeBSD 4.0 without any improvement. > >(The current hard drive is a Seagate 8G ATA66.) So > I > >installed 4.1 again. > > > >Last night, I ran fsck and rebooted. The problem > went > >away for a couple of test reboots; but is back > again > >this morning with different blk#'s. > > > >Does anyone have any advice regarding this matter? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Andrew Gould > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! > >http://calendar.yahoo.com/ > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Craig Huckabee > huck@spawar.navy.mil > Systems Engineer, Compliance Corporation > (843) 218 6459 > SPAWAR Systems Center - Charleston, Charleston, SC > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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