Subject: Re: hard drive screwing up (was re: motherboard)
To: None <emre@visual-cortex.VSRC.UAB.EDU>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/23/2001 21:59:53
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:43:59PM -0600, emre@visual-cortex.VSRC.UAB.EDU wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks to everyone who shared their advice on which motherboard
> I should get.  I got the KT7-RAID and it works very well.

What does KT7-RAID mean ? Does it have a promise or HPT controller
in addition to the VIA one ?

> [...]
> 
>  /netbsd: pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
>  /netbsd:  type: ata tc_bcount: 2048 tc_skip: 0
>  /netbsd: pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x20
>  /netbsd: wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 1 (using DMA data transfers)
>  /netbsd: wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 1 (using DMA data transfers)
>  /netbsd: wd0a: DMA error writing fsbn 16 of 16-19 (wd0 bn 79; cn 0 tn 1 sn 16), retrying
>  /netbsd: wd0: soft error (corrected)

First make sure your cables are OK (controller at one end, drive at the
other. 18 inch long, not 24).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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