On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:54:47AM +0200, Bruce Martin wrote:
> We have been using Promise Ultra 33 IDE Controllers in our systems, with
> NetBSD 1.4.1, and a patch to the pciide* files: the pciide.c is marked v1.42
> 1999/08/30. However, due to Ultra 33's not being manufactured any more, we
> are now using Ultra 66's. They are recognised, and allow the hard disks to
> be accessed fine, but at the line
> 	'root on wd0a dumps on wd0b'
> we then get:
> 	'wd0c: aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 1 (wd0 bn 1; cn 0
> tn 0)'
> 	'wd0: transfer error, downgrading to PIO mode 4'
> 
> The system then works, but of course performance is reduced without DMA
> Modes. Ultra 33's worked fine in DMA mode. Does anybody know how we can get
> Ultra 66's working with DMA mode?

Does your drive support Ultra/66 (Ultra-DMA mode 4) ?
I guess your IDE cable has problems here.

An alternative could be to try 1.4.3, the promise support has been integrated.

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