From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 6 11:22:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05516 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:22:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05494 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:22:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA26233; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:22:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:22:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Karl Pielorz cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ye' olde IDE drive problems... In-Reply-To: <34FFB35A.12DD74E6@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > _ANYWAY_ > > The good news is I solved the problem... Looking through LINT I decided to > fiddle with the flags for wdc0... The drive will hapily work with 'Multi-Block > I/O' on (the drive reckons it supports 16 block mode), but not with 32 bit > transfers on. > > As soon as 32 bit transfers are on - the system gets Interrupt Timeouts etc. Ah, the **disk** was going on vacation. I was in the right ballpark after all :) > I'm not really worried about 32 bit transfers at the moment, they would be > nice (and the old drive I used to use on the system must have supported them - > as they were still in my kernel config), but I can wait... What brand & model of disk is this? I'll keep it in mind. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message