From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 14 13: 3: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out.visi.com (kauket.visi.com [209.98.98.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADCF037B7C2 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:03:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from isis.visi.com (isis.visi.com [209.98.98.8]) by mail-out.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F37C36CE; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:02:58 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (veldy@localhost) by isis.visi.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA21634; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:02:57 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: isis.visi.com: veldy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:02:57 -0600 (CST) From: Thomas Veldhouse To: Soren Schmidt Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CMD640 and ATA drivers In-Reply-To: <200003141553.QAA83093@freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It worked until the latest newbus changes, I'm looking at it, but havn't > found anything obvious yet. > But seriously you want to get another ATA interface, the CMD640 is > _broken_ and no software can help that, you are playing russian > roulette with your data. Get a promise, abit or siig controller > and use that instead... Yeap, that sounds like the best idea. Right now it is just a gateway - so there has been no really I/O on the drive. I did have some corruption awhile back while using SAMBA - but I did not attribute it to the CMD640 then. I found an older ISA Promise for under $30, I think I will get that. This box is an old Pentium with a 166MMX Overdrive in it. Old SiS customized board too. Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message