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Date:      Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:23:06 -0500
From:      Jim C <jconner@enterit.com>
To:        unclemib <unclemib@gryphon.itssa.curtin.edu.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UDMA Problems
Message-ID:  <00022801244500.01267@njhome.enterit.com>
References:  <200002271011.SAA07788@gryphon.itssa.curtin.edu.au>

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Many people I have run across are not aware that UDMA drives require <= 18
inch cables.  Is the cabling you are using for your UDMA drives > 18 inches?

Jim

 On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, unclemib wrote:
| I am experiencing a few problems with UDMA/66.
| 
| system is an Abit BP6 with 2 Celeron 433's, 128MB
| memory , TNT video, and Pro100/10B NIC. I have tried both
| Quantum CR (8G)  and KX (13G) drives.
| 
| I keep getting a 'Read Timeout' message closely followed
| by a 'Resetting ATA' message. This works most of the time
| but every now and again the system completely hangs (I
| can consistently get these messages at random times during
| a make buildworld).
| 
| Under 3.4 everything works flawlessly (except for disk speed).
| 
| Has anyone else seen this? Should I wait till support for
| UDMA/66 matures in 4.X before using it?
| 
| 			Regards unclemib@itssa.curtin.edu.au
| 
| 
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