From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 20:13:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cliff.mfn.org (cliff.mfn.org [204.238.179.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E41C37B43E for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 20:13:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Message1: Missouri FreeNet does not relay. If this email X-Message2: is unsolicited bulk or commercial, please report X-Message3: this abuse promptly to abuse@mfn.org. Thank You. X-ORIGINIP: 128.242.145.201 X-ORIGINDNS: imaging.mfn.org Received: from imaging (imaging.mfn.org [128.242.145.201]) by cliff.mfn.org (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA24660; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:15:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lart@mfn.org) Posted-Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:15:27 -0500 (CDT) X-CUTMARK: --------------- Message-ID: <0b5001c01941$a8754440$c991f280@mfn.org> From: "graphics" To: "Mike Tancsa" Cc: References: <0ad401c0186b$ddaddc20$c991f280@mfn.org> <20000907112141.H7718@wantadilla.lemis.com> <39b84070.1385916732@smtp.sentex.ca> Subject: Re: ATA66 troubles under 4.0R vs 3.4 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 22:05:33 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Tancsa To: "graphics" Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 8:33 PM Subject: Re: ATA66 troubles under 4.0R vs 3.4 > On 7 Sep 2000 00:42:02 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: > > >Greg Lehey says... > >> On Wednesday, 6 September 2000 at 20:35:08 -0500, graphics wrote: > >> > After seeing uncountable sudden "drive deaths" on *brand new* > >> > drives, we did a little digging (thank god for the archives!) and > >> > have noted the many similar tales of woe... > >> > >> "similar" doesn't mean "the same". What do you mean by "drive > >> deaths"? > > > >Hard read errors. Hard write errors. PIO fallbacks. These are > >things you would normally expect only from a very-soon-to-be > > No, not necessarily. There are some compatility issues with particular IDE > controllers using the ata drivers vs. the wd drivers. Yes, this is what we saw in the archives as well: it is what was meant by "things you would normally expect...". > Especially some VIA > chipsets as well as CMD. Also, you want to be using 4.1, not 4.0. Have these issues been addressed in 4.1? > ---Mike Thank you for your kind response! It is very much appreciated. J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message