On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 04:55:05PM +0000, jiho wrote:
> 1.  The new boot sectors from FreeBSD, which use extended BIOS calls for LBA 
> access (and thus let you boot from beyond 8 GB) work great.  I have 1.4D in a 
> partition that occupies exactly all of the drive beyond 8 GB -- because I 
> don't have any other OSes that can do that -- and am using the MBR menu as 
> well.  It all just works.

I think the boot sectors from NetBSD should work as well.

> 3.  The lost "pciide lost interrupt" problem:  In my opinion, this is not 
> cabling, but the drive doing a thermal recalibration.  Notice everyone says 
> this happens while doing a very large transfer of some kind.  It happens to me 
> while extracting huge tarballs -- exactly once in mid-extraction.  This 
> happens on my SCSI drive, but because that drive is so noisy I can tell it's a 
> recalibration due to heat from the heavy use.  Because SCSI has a protocol, 
> the driver knows not to complain.  This "UltraDMA" is just a controller pin 
> connection, basically, so I guess the only way to make this go away is to use 
> a longer timeout for _all_ transfers.

Does it just complain about a timeout, or also with a DMA error of some kind
(I guess "lost interrupt" here). The timeout is already 10s, so I would be
surprised if it needed more than that to recalibrate.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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