Re: 300GIG SATA drives
These Maxtor drives may well be flaky, but they are very widely available and frequently installed in commodity machines. Maxtor drives are flaky? Oh dear. How flaky? Mine is starting to get a bit noisy. Mark pgpvnwXSK9tOO.pgp Description: PGP signature
300GIG SATA drives
Is anyone having problems with SATA drives? I keep getting DMA errors that lock up the system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 300GIG SATA drives
Is anyone having problems with SATA drives? I keep getting DMA errors that Could u provide more informations? I have a SATA raid-1 (160gb disks) on a cheap ataraid controller (builtin in an asus a7v880 mobo): no problem at all. dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 300GIG SATA drives
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 02:42 -0600, Justin L. Boss wrote: Is anyone having problems with SATA drives? I keep getting DMA errors that lock up the system. Assuming you are using FreeBSD 5.x then yes, this is a known problem, there has been some traffic about this issue on this list in recent months. I filed a pr about a specific case of this a few weeks ago but it doesn't seem to have progressed. I have to say I think it is a major problem. It's becoming increasingly difficult to build FreeBSD machines with up to date commodity PC motherboards and large storage drives. SATA drives above about 200GB often seem to suffer from this bug under 5.x, so you need 4.x, which doesn't work with all up-to-date motherboards. So what do you do? Peter. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 300GIG SATA drives
Sorry, yes 5.3R to be exact. I was also informed that this was covered in the stable list under the topic Bad Desk. I look, and it pointed to Maxtor desk drives as being the problem. And yes I'm using a Maxtor disk. But it insinuated in the list that Maxtor large drives quality was bad and it was not a problem with FreeBSD OS. But I have installed Linux and NetBSD on the same drives without a hitch. I'm beginning to think it may be FreeBSD. Any insight would help. Help, Justin On Friday 21 January 2005 02:55 am, you wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 02:42 -0600, Justin L. Boss wrote: Is anyone having problems with SATA drives? I keep getting DMA errors that lock up the system. Assuming you are using FreeBSD 5.x then yes, this is a known problem, there has been some traffic about this issue on this list in recent months. I filed a pr about a specific case of this a few weeks ago but it doesn't seem to have progressed. I have to say I think it is a major problem. It's becoming increasingly difficult to build FreeBSD machines with up to date commodity PC motherboards and large storage drives. SATA drives above about 200GB often seem to suffer from this bug under 5.x, so you need 4.x, which doesn't work with all up-to-date motherboards. So what do you do? Peter. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 300GIG SATA drives
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 17:24 -0600, Justin L. Boss wrote: [top post moved down] On Friday 21 January 2005 02:55 am, you wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 02:42 -0600, Justin L. Boss wrote: Is anyone having problems with SATA drives? I keep getting DMA errors that lock up the system. Assuming you are using FreeBSD 5.x then yes, this is a known problem, there has been some traffic about this issue on this list in recent months. I filed a pr about a specific case of this a few weeks ago but it doesn't seem to have progressed. [from top] Sorry, yes 5.3R to be exact. I was also informed that this was covered in the stable list under the topic Bad Desk. I look, and it pointed to Maxtor desk drives as being the problem. And yes I'm using a Maxtor disk. But it insinuated in the list that Maxtor large drives quality was bad and it was not a problem with FreeBSD OS. But I have installed Linux and NetBSD on the same drives without a hitch. I'm beginning to think it may be FreeBSD. Any insight would help. FreeBSD 4.x also works fine with these drives. I've installed 5.3, experienced DMA errors, reinstalled exactly the same hardware with 4.10 and had error-free operation. The only OS that fails like this seems to be FreeBSD 5.x. These Maxtor drives may well be flaky, but they are very widely available and frequently installed in commodity machines. As it stands, you can't install 5.x on any such machine. Since hardware support in the 4.x branch is lagging, this means you can't use FreeBSD at all on a lot of computers. Not good. I'm amazed there hasn't been more noise about this. Peter. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
