Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 6 Dec 2004 20:27:06 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Another twist on WRITE_DMA issues...
Message-ID:  <p06200752bddab67bdc24@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <200412061904.27758.kirk@strauser.com>
References:  <p0620072dbdd5771efefe@[128.113.24.47]> <200412061904.27758.kirk@strauser.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 7:04 PM -0600 12/6/04, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>On Thursday 02 December 2004 08:31 pm, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
>>  I have now switched from that Western Digital drive to a Seagate
>>  Barracuda 7200.7 120-gig (ST3120026AS).  The drive seems to be
>>  working fairly well, but now I sometimes see some combination
>>  like the following three lines:
>
>Out of curiosity, are you using (g)vinum or accessing the drive
>directly?  I migrated my partitions from the former to the latter
>and all of my DMA problems disappeared.

I noticed your message go by.  No, I do not use either vinum or
gvinum.  Just plain BSD partitions inside of DOS-style slices.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?p06200752bddab67bdc24>