From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 25 13:34:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.snickers.org (snickers.org [216.126.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D0FD37B491 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:34:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drkangel@drkangel.org) Received: from spike (spike [216.126.90.2]) by mail.snickers.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641ED3D47; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:34:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:34:18 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Rodrigues X-X-Sender: To: Kent Stewart Cc: John Mitchell , Subject: Re: IBM DeskStar READ timeout errors In-Reply-To: <3A9970FA.AC7732FE@urx.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message