Vladislav V. Zhuk wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:34:09AM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: >> This is almost always the sign of a bad cable, but it can also be >> the logic board on the drive dying (though much rarer). Check your >> cables. Better yet, go to your local hardware store and buy a new >> ATA/100-spec cable, flat, not rounded, preferably with pull-loops. > > I don't think like you. I check my hardware and I consider that > problem in new ATA driver. Under FreeBSD 4.1.1 my hardware work > excellent. After 4.5 release I get more troubles with IDE devices.
There was some pretty major changes in 4.5. It really should have been a .0 release. It was the same situation when 4.0 came out and they ditched the old ata code. > After reboot my system work excellent 2-5 days, than I get "read > timeout" problem with my CDROM and all system hang. There are a LOT of CDROM drives that don't work properly. I had a Toshiba XM-6402B drive that didn't work half the time, and a cheap 50X drive from Acer that works perfectly. About the only way to get a guarantee of having a good-quality CD/DVD drive is to buy SCSI. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
