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On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:39:34PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:56:16PM -0600, Donald Lee wrote:
> > Hi everybody
> >=20
> > I just installed a third disk on my Beige G3.  All are ATA
> > disks, two are Cuda V (80 GB) and the new one is a Cuda 7200.7 @200 GB.
> >=20
> > wd0 is hooked up to the "internal" ide, and disks wd1 and wd2
> > are connected to a PCI card
> > (pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0: Promise Ultra133/ATA Bus Master IDE=
  Accelerator (rev. 0x02))
> >=20
> > One disk is on each of the two ATA channels on the card.
> >=20
> > I tried to beat on the disks, with some heavy I/O reading from wd1 and =
writing
> > to wd2.
> >=20
> > This seems to work, sort of.  The I/O does not seem to actually
> > fail, but it does seem to 'hang' periodically.
> >=20
> > I get lots of these:
> >=20
> > Mar 11 23:27:40 grace /netbsd:  type: ata tc_bcount: 8192 tc_skip: 0
> > Mar 11 23:27:49 grace /netbsd: pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
> > Mar 11 23:27:49 grace /netbsd:  type: ata tc_bcount: 8192 tc_skip: 0
> > Mar 11 23:27:50 grace /netbsd: pciide0:1:0: lost interrupt
> > Mar 11 23:27:50 grace /netbsd:  type: ata tc_bcount: 8192 tc_skip: 0
> > Mar 11 23:28:31 grace /netbsd: pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
> > Mar 11 23:28:31 grace /netbsd:  type: ata tc_bcount: 65536 tc_skip: 0
> > Mar 11 23:28:31 grace /netbsd: pciide0:1:0: lost interrupt
> > Mar 11 23:28:31 grace /netbsd:  type: ata tc_bcount: 65536 tc_skip: 0
> > Mar 11 23:28:40 grace /netbsd: pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
> > Mar 11 23:28:40 grace /netbsd:  type: ata tc_bcount: 65536 tc_skip: 0
>=20
> Are you sure your power supply is strong enouth to feed 3 drives ?
>=20
> I had this problem in a server, which stopped when I s remplaced the power
> supply with a stronger one.

I'd suggest you check into this. I had the powersupply in my PC die in=20
part because I had too many drives in it.

You can check this out by hooking a volt meter to the pins on a spare HD=20
powersupply cable (get a Y adapter if you need it). I'd suggest hooking=20
the VM up before powering up.

Take care,

Bill

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