Re: kern/25710 (wd0 over pciide downgrades from Ultra/100 to Ultra/33 on bootup)

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

The following reply was made to PR kern/25710; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)
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Subject: Re: kern/25710 (wd0 over pciide downgrades from Ultra/100 to Ultra/33 
on bootup)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:27:29 -0800

 On Apr 18, 11:12am, David Holland wrote:
 }  On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 08:30:04PM +0000, John Nemeth wrote:
 }   >       CRC errors are due to faulty hardware (usually a bad cable).
 }   >  Personally, I would just close this PR on this basis.
 }  
 }  Well, that was my first thought, and also fair@'s back in 2004, but
 }  the submitter said he tried multiple cables. It could be the
 }  controller or drive but that doesn't seem too likely. I guess the next
 }  candidate is an inadequate power supply, but some weird driver issue
 }  isn't at all impossible either.
 
      The only weird possible driver issue would be the driver
 misreporting an error from the controller.  This is unlikely as many
 more people would likely see the problem in that case.
 
 }-- End of excerpt from David Holland