Jayton Garnett wrote:
I had a similar problem and i changed system cases where i was getting
a ICRC error and FreeBSD refused to load or even mount the root fs, it
was also giving errors with something to do with the ATA something or
other, it turned out to be the cable i used after rebuilding the
system in the new case, i used a normal EIDE cable instead of a ATA
cable :-/
hope that helps(probably not)
actually, that makes a lot of sense. my computer running FreeBSD is
actually just an Eden 5000 V-series. the cable is trimmed to fit the
2.5" hard drive in the tiny case and i'm sure this is having something
to do with the timeouts... however the harddrive is recognized as UDMA33
but the cdrom still times out. thanks for the input. note: this setup
works fine in windows... maybe someone should take a look at this
issue? i'm running the old 5.3-RELEASE (too lazy to update) with a VIA
VT8231 SouthBridge (82xxxx ata controller).
Jay
Tony Byrne wrote:
Hello Bob,
can be hardware reasons for timeouts such as a dying disk or cable,
but I think we've eliminated these in our case. [etc]
BB> Don't ignore the possibility of failing controller hardware. We had
BB> comparable mysterious problems on a client system, causing a lot of
BB> head-scratching. Eventually the failure went hard and we had to
replace the
BB> motherboard.
I hear ya! However, moving back to an older kernel changes the
severity of the problem from a timeout every 2 to three minutes during
heavy activity to about 4 or 5 in a 24 hour period. That doesn't
sound like hardware to me.
Regards,
Tony.
i have these same errors on my VIA 823x series chipset. however, the
problem is only with the secondary device (acd0 in this case), and
might be stemming from some other problem.
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