Re: 300GIG SATA drives

2005-01-22 Thread markzero
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

2005-01-21 Thread Justin L. Boss
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

2005-01-21 Thread Davide D'Amico
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 ___

Re: 300GIG SATA drives

2005-01-21 Thread Peter Risdon
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

Re: 300GIG SATA drives

2005-01-21 Thread Justin L. Boss
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

Re: 300GIG SATA drives

2005-01-21 Thread Peter Risdon
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.