Haha, laugh! I bought it 2 years ago, this was the dream of my childhood, in 1996 I was literally drooling over anything PentiumPro and dual seemed like an impossible dream. Was VERY hard to find, the motherboard especially. Bought from some guy who kept them in a garage. Cost $30 + $10(!) for a PPro radiator. It would still be more than satisfactory if only it wasn't the need to write large amount of CDs at 48x speed and that's why I'd need UDMA controller. The rest is recorded history. But Gigabyte sucks anyway. I've yet to see a BIOS THIS buggy (as in my current PPro motherboard).
Z PS. Do you want to buy one? It's packed in a lovely Thermaltake Xaser II case by the way, lighting included! Friday, August 1, 2003, 2:35:19 AM, you wrote: PK> Where are you getting Dual PentiumPro system from?? PK> --Peter PK> ----- Original Message ----- PK> From: "Buckie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PK> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PK> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:14 PM PK> Subject: Re: Issues with large drives going back to PIO PK> Woo. I have just the same thing with a 10Gb Seagate Barracuda ATA III PK> drive here. It appears to occur only when Seagate is attached to the PK> wonderful SI0680 controller (falls back to PIO during boot time and PK> after resetting through atacontrol). There's definitely a 'thing' PK> about these controllers. It never does happen on WDMA modes though, on PK> internal Intel controller. PK> But I have an idea - this Seagate drive has some bad sectors in there, PK> so I had Windows sometimes falling back to PIO for this drive because PK> of these physical errors. Strange anyway. PK> And we seem to have one thing in common: dual PentiumPro systems... PK> Z PK>> Hello. PK>> A few months ago (May) to be exact, Søren posted a patch ( PK>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-May/003275.html PK>> ) to the FreeBSD-current mailing list relating to IDE drives over a PK> certian PK>> size having issues with falling back to PIO mode and other things. This PK>> patch was commited, and is currently in 5.1-RELEASE, and my friend told PK> me PK>> to try applying to the patch to fix the problem (although the patch was PK>> already commited). There does NOT appear to be anything wrong with the PK>> drives, as I have run tests on them and stuck them in another FreeBSD PK>> 5.1-RELEASE box, and the problem seems to disappear. PK>> The error I'm getting is..: PK>> Jul 26 18:17:58 devil kernel: ad3: UDMA ICRC error cmd=write fsbn PK> 198898911 PK>> of 198898911-198899166 retrying PK>> Jul 26 18:17:58 devil kernel: ad3: UDMA ICRC error cmd=write fsbn PK> 198902239 PK>> of 198902239-198902494 retrying PK>> Jul 26 18:17:58 devil kernel: ad3: UDMA ICRC error cmd=write fsbn PK> 198902239 PK>> of 198902239-198902494 retrying PK>> Jul 29 12:43:28 devil kernel: ad2: UDMA ICRC error cmd=write fsbn PK> 203789023 PK>> of 203789023-203789038 retrying PK>> Jul 29 12:43:28 devil kernel: ad2: UDMA ICRC error cmd=write fsbn PK> 203789023 PK>> of 203789023-203789038 falling back to PIO mode PK>> and PK>> ad3: UDMA ICRC error cmd=write fsbn 198898911 of 198898911-198899166 PK>> retrying PK>> ad3: UDMA ICRC error cmd=write fsbn 198902239 of 198902239-198902494 PK>> retrying PK>> ad3: UDMA ICRC error cmd=write fsbn 198902239 of 198902239-198902494 PK>> retrying PK>> ad2: UDMA ICRC error cmd=write fsbn 203789023 of 203789023-203789038 PK>> retrying PK>> ad2: UDMA ICRC error cmd=write fsbn 203789023 of 203789023-203789038 PK>> retrying PK>> ad2: UDMA ICRC error cmd=write fsbn 203789023 of 203789023-203789038 PK>> retrying PK>> ad2: UDMA ICRC error cmd=write fsbn 203789023 of 203789023-203789038 PK> falling PK>> back to PIO mode PK>> The drives are 120GB Maxtor 7200RPM with 2MB cache, I have 3 of them; PK> and I PK>> have experienced the same error with FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and PK> 4.8-RELEASE PK>> (4.8, which always made the drives go back to PIO mode no matter what). PK> The PK>> board is a Asus P4SDX: PK>> ad0: 117246MB <Maxtor 6Y120L0> [238216/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA133 PK>> ad1: 78167MB <Maxtor 4R080J0> [158816/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA133 PK>> ad2: 117246MB <Maxtor 6Y120L0> [238216/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA133 PK>> ad3: 117246MB <Maxtor 6Y120L0> [238216/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA133 PK> _______________________________________________ PK> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list PK> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers PK> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Best regards, Buckie mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"