Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:54:18 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Marco Rodrigues <drkangel@drkangel.org> Cc: John Mitchell <john@mj.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM DeskStar READ timeout errors Message-ID: <3A9970FA.AC7732FE@urx.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102251512400.54272-100000@spike.snickers.org>
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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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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