I' m running NetBSD and MacOSX on the same G4 machine. Anyone knows  
how to check disk status?

  dmesg doesn't show any of interesting.

Nuno


On 2007/02/01, at 02:25, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>>> I'm getting some problem with PMG4 with a Promise Ultra133/ATA:
>>
>> Sounds like a cable problem. On the other hand ATA66 vs. ATA100 is
>> hardly a loss, I doubt that any of the other drives could even come
>> close to saturating an ATA33 channel.
>>
>>> wd0(pdcide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 (Ultra/66)  
>>> (using
>>> DMA)
>>> wd0c: error reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying
>>> wd0: (aborted command, interface CRC error)
>>> wd0: soft error (corrected)
>>> boot device: wd1
>
> I've had this problem for forever with my Promise U133/ATA and I've  
> tried
> different cables, drives, you name it. It's not just the cable.
>
> I think I filed a PR about this a while back.
>
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Nuno Teixeira