Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 00:17:22 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?David_Sieb=F6rger?= <drs@rucus.ru.ac.za> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What hardware do you use ? Message-ID: <20020514001722.A9477@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <20020513131407.P99792-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu on Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:09:19PM -0700 References: <20020513170501.81513.qmail@shell.rucus.ru.ac.za> <20020513131407.P99792-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon 2002-05-13 (14:09), Doug White wrote: > On 13 May 2002, David [ISO-8859-1] Siebörger wrote: > > > That's hardly the worst of it. The ServerWorks OSB4 ATA controller > > has been known to cause data corruption with Seagate drives. > > Have you isolated it to Seagates only? our problematic rackables have > seagate drives, but I don't have any other mfr drives (maxtor, ibm) to > test it with. No, that's from the Alan Cox posting I mentioned. I'm afraid didn't have any drives of other brands handy so I gave up on the IDE interface and went all-SCSI. Here's another report of the problem, but also with a Seagate disk: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=577071+0+archive/2002/freebsd-hackers/20020224.freebsd-hackers > > I've just had a very frustrating experience with this problem on an > > Intel STL2-based 4.6-PRERELEASE system which experienced segfaults > > and file system corruption. We tested the memory, checked the PSU, > > heat in the system, replaced the IDE cable, replaced the drive > > (unfortunately with another Seagate!) before I heard about this > > issue. My testing showed that the problem only occurred while > > writing to disk using UltraDMA. > > On the SCB2 Intel has a big warning in the manual to not use that IDE > interface for system disks. I don't see it in the STL2 manual so I guess > they learned their lesson later on. We don't have any SCB2 systems here, but its specs say it has a Promise controller, rather than the ServerWorks chip on our STL2. -- David Siebörger drs@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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