Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 06:33:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Erik Rothwell <erothwell@callgtn.com> To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: Erik Rothwell <erothwell@callgtn.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ad2s1e: UDMA ICRC error reading fsbn... Message-ID: <20010805062914.R941-100000@endymion> In-Reply-To: <3B6D16B5.43FEA60C@herbelot.com>
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On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > [this rather belongs to -questions : CC modified] > > your error messages are most likely due a mis-adaptation between your > cable (all the more so if you have a bent pin on one of connectors), the > capabilities of your chipset (is it a Via ....) and a perhaps buggy IDE > disk (for example, IBM IDE disk drives of the GX60 family are buggy) I posted to -STABLE mostly because I'd heard of someone else having similar problems since an upgrade to 4.3-stable (which I had done a little while ago as well...) :) But, strangely, the problems disappeared when rebooted... at least I have not encountered them yet again... I'm going to play with it a bit more to see if I can make it reproduce those errors. > > PS : you may want to post also your dmesg file > PS2 : it is possible to downgrade the access speed of the IDE hard disk > via the hw.atamodes sysctl in the /boot/loader.conf file (here is my > config : dma,---,dma,---,dma,---,---,---, you can replace the keyword > "dma" with "pio") I was thinking of reducing the access speed too, but, it seems a moot point now. Thank you for the help, though. I'll post more if I can reproduce the error. Erik. > Erik Rothwell wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I've recently added a new 40GB disk to my existing FreeBSD system... It's > > been less than flawless ;) When I first went to fdisk / disklabel the new > > drive, I got an error stating that the drive geometry was improper... I > > let /stand/sysinstall pick its own more suitable geometry and proceeded > > to newfs the drive, etc. etc. Everything seems all well and good-- the new > > drive mounted to /data... however, when I did a few tests moving data to > > the new drive I get a *lot* of the following: > > > > ad2s1e: UDMA ICRC error reading fsbn 400447 of 200192-200447 (ad2s1 > > bn 400447; cn 397 tn 4 sn 19) retrying > > [SNIP] > > > > > and so on... > > > > the file eventually transfers but its quite noisy... now, I'm wondering if > > this is due to kernel settings or my UDMA configuration-- or perhaps due > > to some hardware problem. > > > > I at first suspected the cables-- because I accidentally damaged one of > > the pins on my old 20GB drive... so, when I got the error at first (by > > copying a 750MB file from the old drive to the new) I figured it was an > > error in the old drive... so, I tried doing a copy of the same file (now > > on /data) to elsewhere also on /data... still, the same errors > > reading/writing from/to the same disk... > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks in advance... > > > > Erik. > > > > > -- > Thierry Herbelot > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- E. L. Rothwell PGP Public Key at http://www.keyserver.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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