J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> At 15:04 1/02/2003 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
>>> What are my options if the BIOS is stupid/old enough not to have such a
>>> knob?
>>
>> I'm going out on a limb here, but IIRC (it's been a long time since I
>> actually worked with that old hardware
Eric Timme wrote:
> I was just wondering if the performance difference on a p2-400 would warrant
> me trying to find a controller card that can handle ata100/133, and if so,
> how hard it'd be to get the motherboard to utilize harddrives connected up to
> said controller card?
I've done exactly t
At 15:04 1/02/2003 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
What are my options if the BIOS is stupid/old enough not to have such a
knob?
I'm going out on a limb here, but IIRC (it's been a long time since I
actually worked with that old hardware) you should be able to ignore the
BIOS setting completely, as l
J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ snip: adding ata100 controller ]
>> This is normally the easy bit. If you don't want to boot off a drive
>> connected to this controller you don't have to do anything in the BIOS.
>> If you want to boot off this controller, simply change the boot
Possible disk going bad? If you have the opportunity, you may want to
reboot, and run the SCSI utilities for the card (they should have a
"verify media". It should be nondestructive, it will just look for bad
blocks and reallocate them). Of course you may also want to check cabling
(expecially t
> I've started seein the following in my log (messages) file today.
> Google-ing doesn't seem to yield much and I was wondering if someone
> has an idea why this is happening:
I got similar messages from two disks just before they died.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To Unsu
I've started seein the following in my log (messages) file today.
Google-ing doesn't seem to yield much and I was wondering if someone
has an idea why this is happening:
[]
Feb 1 14:34:50 ns2 /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): SCB 0x0 - timed out
Feb 1 14:34:50 ns2 /kernel: ahc0: Dumping Card Stat
> One small word of caution though, if you move a boot drive to the new
> controller, you will have an... interesting.. time with updating your
> /etc/fstab and the disklabel to get it to mount root from the right drive
> and upgrade the mount to r/w. My advice would probably be to boot once wit
