From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 13 21:58:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F9F516A400 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:58:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hyperconx.com) Received: from front.hyperconx.net (ns1.hyperconx.net [65.74.165.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC9D243D49 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:57:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hyperconx.com) Received: from adsl-69-225-224-190.dsl.skt2ca.pacbell.net ([69.225.224.190] helo=Production) by front.hyperconx.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.53) id 1FU9p9-0002O6-Iv for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:57:59 -0700 From: "Wil Hatfield" To: Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:57:58 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Subject: RE: DMA TIMEOUT X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:58:00 -0000 > Did you use a 80- or 40-ATA cable? > If you've configured your drives to do UATA-66 or faster then > FreeBSD (or > any other OS for that matter) will crash if you connect a second drive... It's an 80 wire. I have two drives on nearly all of my machines and never had an issue with crashing until just recently. Started in 5.4, gone in 6.1-PRE, back in 6.1-RC. It doesn't happen alot though under 6.1-RC. But under 5.4 it was about every 8 hours on average. So in one sense 6.1 is still saving my arsh. -- Wil Hatfield