On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 17:13 +0200, ovidiu wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: > > >On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 06:50 +0000, Martin Hepworth wrote: > > > > > >>Hi > >> > >>in freebsd this is called softupdates and can be enables using tunefs (see > >>the man page). > >> > >>If not quite journaling as it does things slightly differently, but achieves > >>many of the same effects, like reduced fsck time on boot. > >> > >>-- > >>martin > >> > >>On 3/22/06, Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I've had some problems earlier this year due to FreeBSD-6.0 crashing > >>>after a few hours of execution (perhaps it's mal-functioning hd's dma, > >>>but - simply put - I can't install FreeBSD 2 or 3 times a day to find > >>>out! ^^). And so I thought of journaling file systems. > >>> > >>>I think XFS is being ported to FreeBSD, but last news on the official > >>>page (http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/xfs/) dates from December > >>>12th, 2005 (and it's still read-only). So... > >>> > >>>Is there a journaling file system (rw ready) available? Which one? > >>> > >>>Another question: how can I completly diable hd dma? -.-" > >>> > >>>-- > >>>[]'s, > >>>Luiz Eduardo > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > >> > >> > > > >You can disable DMA with the atacontrol command: for example > > > >atacontrol mode ad0 pio4 > > > >I have a Maxtor 40GB which won't work in DMA mode with FreeBSD, although > >it seems fine with other OSes. There is a hefty perfomance hit, of > >course! > > > > > > > > > Did you tried with different ATA cable? I've solved this kind of issues > every time by changing the cable or by lower-ing the settings for ATA, > like instead of ATA133 to use ATA100, or ATA66. > > #atacontrol list > #atacontrol mode ad0 ATA66 > > Try that, if it works, try ATA100. > Your hard drive, motherboard and your cable, all must be ATA100 to > support that speed. > > > >
Yes, I tried different cables and different DMA settings. Only PIO mode works with this disk, motherboard and FreeBSD. It used to work with an earlier version of FreeBSD, I think 4.9. I don't know if FreeBSD has been a bit 'over-tuned' to work with this disk, or it is simply a disk that is starting to go bad. I don't really want to waste any more time experimenting with it - I have just put the disk on the shelf for now. -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
