Getting around WRITE_DMA errors

2006-01-14 Thread Sebastian
Hi, Installing 6.0-RELEASE on a new machine. (Have tried 5.4 too). Using a PCChips M848ALU motherboard with onboard SiS IDE controller, and a Hitachi 160gb disk. When my disk is in UDMA6 (133) mode, FreeBSD dies painfully with many errors like: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error

Re: Getting around WRITE_DMA errors

2006-01-14 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:26:11 -0800, Sebastian wrote: Hi, Installing 6.0-RELEASE on a new machine. (Have tried 5.4 too). Using a PCChips M848ALU motherboard with onboard SiS IDE controller, and a Hitachi 160gb disk. When my disk is in UDMA6 (133) mode, FreeBSD dies painfully with many

Re: Getting around WRITE_DMA errors

2006-01-14 Thread Sebastian
Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: Are you sure that your hard drive is not dying? Run smartctl -a /dev/ad0 and see if any errors were being logged. (smartctl is part of the smartmontools port) You should also try another cable. Thanks for the response. I'm reasonably sure, the disk is brand new,

Re: Getting around WRITE_DMA errors

2006-01-14 Thread Sebastian
Sebastian wrote: Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: Are you sure that your hard drive is not dying? Run smartctl -a /dev/ad0 and see if any errors were being logged. (smartctl is part of the smartmontools port) You should also try another cable. Thanks for the response. I'm reasonably sure, the

Re: Getting around WRITE_DMA errors

2006-01-14 Thread chris
Try the bios ? Sebastian wrote: Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: Are you sure that your hard drive is not dying? Run smartctl -a /dev/ad0 and see if any errors were being logged. (smartctl is part of the smartmontools port) You should also try another cable. Thanks for the response. I'm

Re: Getting around WRITE_DMA errors

2006-01-14 Thread Sebastian
Sebastian wrote: Hi, Installing 6.0-RELEASE on a new machine. (Have tried 5.4 too). Using a PCChips M848ALU motherboard with onboard SiS IDE controller, and a Hitachi 160gb disk. When my disk is in UDMA6 (133) mode, FreeBSD dies painfully with many errors like: ad0: WARNING -