From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 17 15:59: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp2fb.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E5FA37B405 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 15:59:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from scott1.despammed.com ([24.168.25.8]) by nyc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:29:14 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011117172244.00c5fa40@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-Sender: scottro@pop-server.nyc.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:29:14 -0500 To: Nils Holland , David Loszewski From: Scott Subject: RE: harddrive error Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20011117231513.V38627-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> References: <000601c16fb3$bd50c1e0$3000b1d8@sickness> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 23:19 2001/11/17 +0100, Nils Holland wrote: > > >I would think that a cable that doesn't work wouldn't work under any OS, >as long as that US actually makes use of your HDDs UDMA mode. I cannot >imagine that you can actually have a cable that works with a drive in UDMA >mode on every OS except for FreeBSD, but I currently cannot prove this ;-) Actually, I can (prove it, that is.) :) On a better machine with an ASUS motherboard, when trying to solve my own UDMA error problem I noticed that certain modes were greyed out in the BIOS. There was a message that it was only enabled if the machine detected 80 pin shielded IDE cable. Which means, that though WinXp didn't complain about it, it wasn't using it either. :) A quick history of my issue--when it first happened, one of my first searches on deja indicated that it was because of a cheaper hard drive. Then, when it happened on the second machine, I read a few more of the 2000 hits (although if I added pio to the search criteria, it dropped to about 890 hits.) :) That's when I found out about the cable possibility, looked into the machines' BIOS and found that on the ASUS board. HTH a little Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message