Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 01:03:49 +0100 From: Pecsenyanszky Istvan <pisti@c3.hu> To: Marco Rodrigues <drkangel@drkangel.org> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>, John Mitchell <john@mj.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: IBM DeskStar READ timeout errors Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.32.0102252351160.19956-100000@visio.c3.hu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102251629540.54272-100000@spike.snickers.org>
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I had exactly the same problem with HPT366 (using IBM Deskstar drives), a lot of error messages and suddenly lock ups during fsck or heavier disk usage. After changing the controller to HPT370 (Abit BX133) everything worked fine. Istvan On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Marco Rodrigues wrote: > Sorry. It's a Abit BE6 pIII 600. HighPoint HPT366 ATA66 > controller. > > -- > "Sanity is calming, but madness is far more interesting." > > On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > Marco Rodrigues wrote: > > > > > > I've done that already. It's fine. The drive works fine when I > > > change the kernel state for hw.atamodes from dma to pio, but it's slow as > > > hell. (obviously) > > > > You never said what kind of motherboard and cpu you are using. There > > are mb's with problems doing UDMA-100 and Via chips. This seems to be > > especially true with AMD's. I have a KT7 and a Thunderbird that I > > added a Promise so that it would do UDMA-100 without errors. I have a > > Abit VP6 with 2-866's that does UDMA-100 in the individual drives mode > > or in the raid configuration with out any problems. > > > > Kent > > > > > > > > -- > > > "Sanity is calming, but madness is far more interesting." > > > > > > On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, John Mitchell wrote: > > > > > > > At 11:07 02/25/2001 -0500, you wrote: > > > > >Greetings List, > > > > > > > > > > I recently bought a 45 GB IBM Deskstar. As with all new HD's I ran > > > > >some tests on it. Bonnie for example. The problem I keep getting is the > > > > >following, and it only happens when I try reading from the disk. > > > > > > > > > >ad5: READ command timeout - resetting > > > > >ata2: resetting devices.. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >The machine locks up and I have to run FSCK on the disk. The disk works > > > > >fine in Windows 2000 on the same machine. Does anyone know of any issues > > > > >is FreeBSD or configuration options I should have enabled/disabled? I'm > > > > >using FreeBSD 4.2 - STABLE with the basic kernel added, with the > > > > >exception of some options but those only deal with firewall/network > > > > >options. > > > > > > > > I would strongly suggest downloading the Drive Fitness Test > > > > application available from the IBM tech support site at > > > > http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm > > > > to ensure you don't have some obscure drive hardware problem. > > > > This download creates a self booting diskette to run the utility. > > > > > > > > Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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