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Date:      Mon, 13 Dec 1999 14:23:00 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        joeo@nks.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Errors from the ata disk driver
Message-ID:  <14421.18254.748286.640261@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199912130801.JAA33383@freebsd.dk>
References:  <14418.39524.290684.380673@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <199912130801.JAA33383@freebsd.dk>

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Soren Schmidt writes:
 > It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > >  > These are UDMA CRC errors, if you upgrade to the latest current, ata
 > >  > knows to retry these, only if they persist, something is wrong.
 > >  > However it could indicate cable problems, ie bad connectors or maybe
 > >  > too long cables..
 > >  > 
 > > 
 > > He said the disk was attached to a Promise Ultra/33.  Does the
 > > backdown to PIO on Promise Ultra controllers work now?  I've been
 > > watching the commits to the ata driver, and haven't seen anything that
 > > makes me think that it would.. but I haven't tried it since last week.
 > 
 > I've fixed it here (I hope), and it will be in the next batch of fixes.
 > I hope to get through my mailbox today :)

Thanks.  I'm running a kernel built with them now.  If/when we see CRC 
errors, I'll let you know what happens.  We don't see them frequently
(a few times a month), so it might be a while.

Thanks again,

Drew


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