Replacing the drive with another brand did not end up fixing the problem. Upgrading to 4.7 and running "atacontrol mode 0 pio3 pio3" did on the new machine. I think it fixed the older machine as well, but not enough time has passed on that machine for me to say for sure.
- Jason On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:10:48AM -0000, Neil Doody wrote: > Hi, am I correct in thinking you two have both experienced random > unexplainable freebsd crashes, and you think its to do with the Maxtor > type hard drives? > > Recently I have been getting signal 12 kernel panics, the other day I > had a different message of something about the filesystem doing a > boo-boo. And even now when running a make world it may not reboot, but > receive a signal 11 with some corruption that would suggest it received > some kind of rubbish data. > > These panics happen once a day roughly, but can be easily recreated by > running a make world as you have mentioned. > > I have had everything replaced in the machine but the hard drive, which > is Maxtor, however I had the hard drive replaced today, and it was > another Maxtor hard drive. > > A clean install of freebsd 4.6.2 was installed on the new Maxtor hard > drive, and since having it booted up I have not been able to complete a > build world to get the latest freebsd. > > I have gone back to my host to request a non-maxtor drive be put into > the machine, do you guys truly believe it to be a problem with Maxtor > drives? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
