Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 16:33:52 -0400 From: Ted Sikora <tsikora@home.com> To: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, "current@FreeBSD.ORG" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks Message-ID: <39187630.B67237B8@home.com> References: <20000509041401.F25972@cs.rice.edu>
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Alan Cox wrote: > > About two days ago, I tested a machine with four IDE drives > each on its own cable as the master. All four drives were: > > ad0: 29311MB <Maxtor 53073U6> [59554/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA66 > > I used the motherboard controller to support two of the drives. It was a > > atapci0: <Intel ICH ATA66 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0 > > and a Highpoint-based ATA66 controller for the other two drives. The > Highpoint locked up with the "resetting devices" message as soon > as the system was stressed. I replaced the Highpoint controller > with a Promise ATA66 and didn't see any problems after that. (I've > never seen any problems with the Maxtor's on the Intel ATA66 controller > either.) > > In summary, same disks, three different controllers, problems only > occur with the Highpoint controller. (I believe the Abit BP6 uses > the Highpoint controller.) > > I use the BP6 with FreeBSD-current and Slackware. The Highpoint works great with FreeBSD however I have a problem with the Maxtor running fsck under Linux. This has occurred since the beginning of support for the Highpoint. I have used Hedricks patches and nagged him about problems but the only remaining issue is fsck. It works perfectly with the PIIX controller. Benchmarks sizzle with the Maxtor/Highpoint almost 24MB/sec so the tradeoff is acceptable(to me). The best the IBM could muster was 20MB/sec. The Maxtor/PIIX runs a little over 19MB/sec occasionally hitting 20MB/sec. Regards, -- Ted Sikora Jtl Development Group tsikora@powerusersbbs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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