On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:52:50AM +0000, Andrea wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm yet trying to build a file-server using NetBSD+RaidFrame+4ATA HD.
> But again i'm facing heavy problem in doing this.
> 
> The symptom is still the same,when i try to initialize/read/write the
> raid volume the network card go away...
> 
> The chipset is a VIA686A,the card is a Realtek 8139 and the IDE
> controllers are on-board ,changing the card (e.g. using a 3com)
> attenuate the problem ,but doesn't resolve it .

Look for BIOS upgrade for your motherboard, or for options in the
bios to tune PCI parameters. The VIA686A is buggy and a few things to be turned
off.
Look at http://www.au-ja.de/review-kt133a-1.html (there is a link to
an english version) for details.

Anyway, I strongly suggest avoiding to put 2 drives on the same channel,
especially 2 differents one (although I've also got problems with 2 identical,
it just seems that some drives misbehaves as slave). instead try getting
a cheap add-on pciide adapter and move 2 disks to it.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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