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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:34:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      Marco Rodrigues <drkangel@drkangel.org>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
Cc:        John Mitchell <john@mj.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: IBM DeskStar READ timeout errors
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102251629540.54272-100000@spike.snickers.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A9970FA.AC7732FE@urx.com>

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	Sorry. It's a Abit BE6 pIII 600. HighPoint HPT366 ATA66
controller.

-- 
"Sanity is calming, but madness is far more interesting."

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Kent Stewart wrote:

>
>
> Marco Rodrigues wrote:
> >
> >         I've done that already. It's fine. The drive works fine when I
> > change the kernel state for hw.atamodes from dma to pio, but it's slow as
> > hell. (obviously)
>
> You never said what kind of motherboard and cpu you are using. There
> are mb's with problems doing UDMA-100 and Via chips. This seems to be
> especially true with AMD's. I have a KT7 and a Thunderbird that I
> added a Promise so that it would do UDMA-100 without errors. I have a
> Abit VP6 with 2-866's that does UDMA-100 in the individual drives mode
> or in the raid configuration with out any problems.
>
> Kent
>
> >
> > --
> > "Sanity is calming, but madness is far more interesting."
> >
> > On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, John Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > > At 11:07 02/25/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >Greetings List,
> > > >
> > > >         I recently bought a 45 GB IBM Deskstar. As with all new HD's I ran
> > > >some tests on it. Bonnie for example. The problem I keep getting is the
> > > >following, and it only happens when I try reading from the disk.
> > > >
> > > >ad5: READ command timeout - resetting
> > > >ata2: resetting devices..
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >The machine locks up and I have to run FSCK on the disk. The disk works
> > > >fine in Windows 2000 on the same machine. Does anyone know of any issues
> > > >is FreeBSD or configuration options I should have enabled/disabled? I'm
> > > >using FreeBSD 4.2 - STABLE with the basic kernel added, with the
> > > >exception of some options but those only deal with firewall/network
> > > >options.
> > >
> > > I would strongly suggest downloading the Drive Fitness Test
> > > application available  from the IBM tech support site at
> > > http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm
> > > to ensure you don't have some obscure drive hardware problem.
> > > This download creates a self booting diskette to run the utility.
> > >
> > > Good luck.
> > >
> > >
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