Re: ata "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote: > I've manually set: > > atacontrol mode 0 UDMA33 UDMA33 > > and the problem has not recurred. That sort of hints that there's some issue with the cabling, as UDMA33 is the highest you can go on a 40wire IDE cable. Going beyond requires an 80wire cable

Re: Disk activity leading to hangs

2002-11-04 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Jason Godfrey wrote: > After a bit of experimentation it seems that the hang (at least on the AMD) > occurs under write activity. (A yes > /tmp/foo hangs it.) It seems to hold up > under read loads. I've seen references to power supply problems causing similar symptoms (crashe

Re: Fatal trap after adding more memory

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Eric Ekong wrote: > I added memory to my machine yesterday and since then I have noticed > Fatal traps when I try to do some intensive activity on the machine. > IE. make buildworld Tried yanking that last module back out? Something else, are all DIMMs the same manufacturer,