> 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
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On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 17:24 -0600, Justin L. Boss wrote:
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> 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.
> >
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
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
mon
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
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