Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-09 Thread Greg Lehey
I replaced the Highpoint controller > with a Promise ATA66 and didn't see any problems after that. (I've > never seen any problems with the Maxtor's on the Intel ATA66 controller > either.) > > In summary, same disks, three different controllers, problems only > occ

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-09 Thread Ted Sikora
troller > with a Promise ATA66 and didn't see any problems after that. (I've > never seen any problems with the Maxtor's on the Intel ATA66 controller > either.) > > In summary, same disks, three different controllers, problems only > occur with the Highpoint controller.

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-09 Thread Ted Sikora
Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Monday, 8 May 2000 at 9:57:54 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Not all non IBM disks has problems, that was not the message back > >> then, at least not from me. What I said, and still says, is that > >> Maxtor and WDC has a bad reputation on making drives that can'

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-09 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2509 11:20], Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >In summary, same disks, three different controllers, problems only >occur with the Highpoint controller. (I believe the Abit BP6 uses >the Highpoint controller.) It does. It might be worthwhile to note that there are updates o

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-09 Thread Alan Cox
er seen any problems with the Maxtor's on the Intel ATA66 controller either.) In summary, same disks, three different controllers, problems only occur with the Highpoint controller. (I believe the Abit BP6 uses the Highpoint controller.) Alan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 8 May 2000 at 9:57:54 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Not all non IBM disks has problems, that was not the message back >> then, at least not from me. What I said, and still says, is that >> Maxtor and WDC has a bad reputation on making drives that can't work >> reliably with UDMA6

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-08 Thread Ted Sikora
"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > It seems Arun Sharma wrote: > > > I have the following disk: > > > ad4: 9787MB [19885/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA33 > > > and am experiencing hangs when I run it with UDMA66. > > > > That exact disk mo

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-08 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > It seems Arun Sharma wrote: > > I have the following disk: > > ad4: 9787MB [19885/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA33 > > and am experiencing hangs when I run it with UDMA66. > > That exact disk model cant do UDMA66 reliably, even Linux ha

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-08 Thread sthaug
> Not all non IBM disks has problems, that was not the message back > then, at least not from me. What I said, and still says, is that > Maxtor and WDC has a bad reputation on making drives that can't work > reliably with UDMA66, quantum has its share too but not so bad. There are some WDC disks

Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-08 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Arun Sharma wrote: > I have the following disk: > ad4: 9787MB [19885/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA33 > and am experiencing hangs when I run it with UDMA66. That exact disk model cant do UDMA66 reliably, even Linux has it on the blacklist in the driver > I read the threads from F

Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks

2000-05-08 Thread Arun Sharma
I have the following disk: ad4: 9787MB [19885/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA33 and am experiencing hangs when I run it with UDMA66. I originally suspected this to be a cooling problem. But uncommenting the hlt instruction and reducing the temperature by 10 deg C, didn't help it. I read the

Re: ABIT BP6, UDMA-66 and wdc AC310200

2000-02-22 Thread Joseph Thomas
> > It seems Arun Sharma wrote: > > > Do you have the prober 80pin cable ?? if so please provide a verbose boot... > > > > Thanks, that fixed the problem. Has anyone benchmarked the driver ? A very > > unscientific benchmark that I ran didn't seem to produce much of a difference > > between UDMA

Re: ABIT BP6, UDMA-66 and wdc AC310200

2000-02-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Arun Sharma wrote: > > Do you have the prober 80pin cable ?? if so please provide a verbose boot... > > Thanks, that fixed the problem. Has anyone benchmarked the driver ? A very > unscientific benchmark that I ran didn't seem to produce much of a difference > between UDMA33 and UDMA66.

Re: ABIT BP6, UDMA-66 and wdc AC310200

2000-02-22 Thread Arun Sharma
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:54:40AM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Arun Sharma wrote: > > I have the above hardware combination and here's the dmesg from > > 4.0-current: > > > > atapci0: port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0 > > atapci1: port >0xb400-0xb4ff,0xb000-0xb003,0xac00-0x

Re: ABIT BP6, UDMA-66 and wdc AC310200

2000-02-22 Thread nnd
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Arun Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What kind of cable do yuo use ? Is it 80-wire one ? N.Dudorov > I have the above hardware combination and here's the dmesg from > 4.0-current: > > atapci0: port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0 > atapci1: port

Re: ABIT BP6, UDMA-66 and wdc AC310200

2000-02-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Arun Sharma wrote: > I have the above hardware combination and here's the dmesg from > 4.0-current: > > atapci0: port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0 > atapci1: port >0xb400-0xb4ff,0xb000-0xb003,0xac00-0xac07 irq 11 at device 19.0 on pci0 > ata2: at 0xac00 on atapci1 > atapci2:

ABIT BP6, UDMA-66 and wdc AC310200

2000-02-22 Thread Arun Sharma
I have the above hardware combination and here's the dmesg from 4.0-current: atapci0: port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0 atapci1: port 0xb400-0xb4ff,0xb000-0xb003,0xac00-0xac07 irq 11 at device 19.0 on pci0 ata2: at 0xac00 on atapci1 atapci2: port 0xc000-0xc0ff,0xbc00-0xbc03,0xb800-0

Re: Abit BP6

2000-02-21 Thread nnd
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Terje Elde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone have any information to contribute? > There is the 'dmesg' from the system based on the Abit BP6 motherboard. As you can see the OS is very current. (In fact I rebuild world on this sy

Abit BP6

2000-02-21 Thread Terje Elde
Hi all, Possibly not the right place to ask about this, but I've been unable to dig up any information about this elsewhere, so I figure it might be worth a shot. This could be interesting for others on the list as well. I've come across a rather nice looking motherboard from Abit, a BP6 to be e

Re: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

2000-02-13 Thread Marius Strom
Mine's a Western Digital WD205BARTL (Caviar 20.5 gig 7200 RPM) -- Marius Strom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Professional Geek/Unix System Administrator Alpha1 Internet http://www.marius.org/marius.pgp 0x5645C228 In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice... ..

Re: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

2000-02-12 Thread Peter Wemm
if (ap->udmamodes & 0x01) return 0; > Dan > - Original Message - > From: "Hans Ottevanger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 10:31 AM > Subject: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk c

Re: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

2000-02-12 Thread Dan Mack
;-) Is there anything I can do to solve this problem besides buying new disks? Dan - Original Message - From: "Hans Ottevanger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 10:31 AM Subject: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

Re: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

2000-02-12 Thread sthaug
> > I am currently having problems with my new Dual Celeron testsystem, > > when trying to use UDMA66. ... > If you are using the newest code, then the problem might be that > your disks doesn't work proberly with UDMA66. I've seen several > newer disks that has problems here, and frankly Maxtor i

Re: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

2000-02-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Hans Ottevanger wrote: > Tried this patch, and the system does not hang any more. Even better, > I/O to this disk is still quite fast, at least way faster than using the > "standard" interface on this board (and even that is not really slow). > I'll run a "buildworld" as torture test thi

Re: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

2000-02-12 Thread Hans Ottevanger
Soren Schmidt wrote: > [...] > > If you are using the newest code, then the problem might be that > your disks doesn't work proberly with UDMA66. I've seen several > newer disks that has problems here, and frankly Maxtor is not > known for their quality in this respect. I cvsupped this morning.

Re: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

2000-02-12 Thread Hans Ottevanger
Marius Strom wrote: > > Hans and others, > I have the same situation - happy to get a new motherboard and processor, > unhappy to hang FreeBSD. My situation is different, however - I'm running > single processor currently and it still hangs. I've also experienced this > issue with and without s

Re: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

2000-02-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Marius Strom wrote: > Hans and others, > I have the same situation - happy to get a new motherboard and processor, > unhappy to hang FreeBSD. My situation is different, however - I'm running > single processor currently and it still hangs. I've also experienced this > issue with and wit

Re: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

2000-02-12 Thread Hans Ottevanger
Ashley Penney wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 05:31:47PM +0100, Hans Ottevanger spoketh: > : Hi folks, > : > : I am currently having problems with my new Dual Celeron testsystem, > : when trying to use UDMA66. > > Hans, > > Have you tried updating to the latest CURRENT? I had the same issue

Re: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

2000-02-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Ashley Penney wrote: > > [Incidently, since then I've had another timeout or two, but it doesn't > kill the machine anymore. Sos, is there anything I can do to help find > out what's causing this?] Hmm, could you send me a complete verbose boot dmesg ?, just so I can get an idea on you

Re: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

2000-02-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Hans Ottevanger wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am currently having problems with my new Dual Celeron testsystem, > when trying to use UDMA66. > ABIT BP6 > 2x Celeron 466 (NOT overclocked) > 128 Mbyte RAM > Matrox G400 16 MByte > 3Com 905B > 2x Maxtor 9204

Re: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

2000-02-12 Thread Marius Strom
Hans Ottevanger wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am currently having problems with my new Dual Celeron testsystem, > when trying to use UDMA66. > > Hardware: > > ABIT BP6 > 2x Celeron 466 (NOT overclocked) > 128 Mbyte RAM > Matrox G400 16 MByte > 3Com 905B > 2x Ma

Re: ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

2000-02-12 Thread Ashley Penney
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 05:31:47PM +0100, Hans Ottevanger spoketh: : Hi folks, : : I am currently having problems with my new Dual Celeron testsystem, : when trying to use UDMA66. Hans, Have you tried updating to the latest CURRENT? I had the same issues until sos checked in a few fixes for th

ABIT BP6 + UDMA66: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

2000-02-12 Thread Hans Ottevanger
Hi folks, I am currently having problems with my new Dual Celeron testsystem, when trying to use UDMA66. Hardware: ABIT BP6 2x Celeron 466 (NOT overclocked) 128 Mbyte RAM Matrox G400 16 MByte 3Com 905B 2x Maxtor 92041U4 20 GByte Aopen CDROM 48x One of the disks is master on the first