Subject: Re: Promise U100
To: None <port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
From: Donald Lee <MacPPC@caution.icompute.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/21/2003 11:46:04
At 7:56 PM -0700 9/20/03, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>> Aug 21 07:37:06 grace /netbsd: root file system type: ffs
>> Aug 21 07:37:06 grace /netbsd: wd1: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 2
>> Aug 21 07:37:06 grace /netbsd: wd1(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using DMA data transfers)
>> Aug 21 07:37:06 grace /netbsd: wd1c: error reading fsbn 0 (wd1 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying
>> Aug 21 07:37:06 grace /netbsd: wd1: (aborted command, interface CRC error)
>> Aug 21 07:37:07 grace /netbsd: wd1: soft error (corrected)
>> Aug 21 07:37:06 grace savecore: no core dump
>
>I'm glad I'm not the only one observing this problem (I see it on a Sonnet
>Tempo Trio ATA/133, which is also a Promise chipset card). Very annoying,
>but it doesn't seem to have caused any problems yet. Nevertheless, I'd
>like to know why I'm not getting full bandwidth.
>
>For the record, mine is also an ATA/133 card connected to a ATA/100 drive
>(it's a Western Digital of some kind), in a PM 7300 with a G3/500, running
>1.6.1 (not current).

Again for the record, mine is also a Sonnet Tempo ATA/133 card.

-dgl-