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Date:      Sat, 25 Nov 2000 20:24:46 +1100
From:      Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>
To:        Brian Behlendorf <brian@collab.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: more ata0 problems
Message-ID:  <3A1F855E.AC1135BC@quake.com.au>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011250037540.74621-100000@localhost>

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Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Kal Torak wrote:
> > ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> > ata0: resetting devices .. done
> [..]
> > This was on my IBM laptop, and I have had no problems with any of
> > the previous versions...
> > It would seem there must be some bug in the ata driver?
> 
> I suspect that it's a matter of a new diagnostic suddenly causing people
> to think there's a new error present, when they simply didn't see it
> before.  I started seeing it when I did an upgrade a month ago too, and
> thought it was an error, before I realized I really WAS having drive
> problems.  The only other explanation is that the ata driver is somehow
> causing these new errors to appear, but I consider that unlikely; since
> getting a new hard drive (same model, same machine, etc) I'm not seeing
> the errors, and the old hard drive died hard (unable to even boot now) not
> something I'd suspect the ata driver of causing.


Yeah I would agree except that it only happens in udma mode, PIO mode
dosent generate any errors at all...
Am I supposed to use my udma disks in PIO mode?


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