On 13 May 2002, David [ISO-8859-1] Siebörger wrote: > That's hardly the worst of it. The ServerWorks OSB4 ATA controller > has been known to cause data corruption with Seagate drives.
Have you isolated it to Seagates only? our problematic rackables have seagate drives, but I don't have any other mfr drives (maxtor, ibm) to test it with. > I've just had a very frustrating experience with this problem on an > Intel STL2-based 4.6-PRERELEASE system which experienced segfaults > and file system corruption. We tested the memory, checked the PSU, > heat in the system, replaced the IDE cable, replaced the drive > (unfortunately with another Seagate!) before I heard about this > issue. My testing showed that the problem only occurred while > writing to disk using UltraDMA. On the SCB2 Intel has a big warning in the manual to not use that IDE interface for system disks. I don't see it in the STL2 manual so I guess they learned their lesson later on. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
