Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 13:46:33 -0400 (EDT) From: mi@privatelabs.com To: Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.on.ca> Cc: Paulo Fragoso <paulo@nlink.com.br>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: wd vs. ata (was Re: BurnCD) Message-ID: <200005021746.NAA70823@misha.privatelabs.com> In-Reply-To: <00050208495801.03272@peon.zort.on.ca>
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On 2 May, Rod Taylor wrote: = As a side note to this long conversation, I'll mention that I've = downgraded that box back to 3.4 and it now works properly again. From my experience, you could've just used the old wd driver instead of the new ata stuff and ignore the config's warnings. I just upgraded a machine with two IDE disks (one master on each channel, with CMD640 stuff). One of the drives is at least 7 years old. wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): <WDC AC2420H> wd2: 405MB (830760 sectors), 989 cyls, 15 heads, 56 S/T, 512 B/S With ata driver, an attempt to mount the partition on the drive would result in a hang (not even console-switching would work) right after the partition parameters were printed by the kernel (booted with -v). Both of the drives were being accessed in pio mode automaticly, judging by the hw.ata... (pio,---,pio,---,). The first disk, which is newer worked fine. With wd driver the second drive "just works"... This was with 4.0-RELEASE. I have since upgraded to the 3 days old -stable, but have not tried ata again. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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