Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Martin Eriksson" <> | Subject | ATA is not crap. Propably. | Date | Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:40:29 +0100 |
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Sorry everyone I've upset.
The problem *seems* to be with my hard disks. Apparently both advertises udma2 capability but neither is capable?? When I run the disks on my "on-board" controller, I get a DMA timeout and the system comes to a halt (well only the HD activity, but you can't do much without access to the root/usr partition). When running on my HPT366 controller, I don't get the timeouts, but I do get the "slow responding system" at about the same time at which I get the timeouts on the PIIX4 controller. Problem comes when having copied about 11% of a 500'000'000 byte file from /dev/hdc7 to /dev/hda6...
The hard disks in question are models hda: ST36451A hdc: Maxtor 91152D8
The reason why I moved to the HPT366 controller in the first place, was because the onboard controller / BIOS? messed up the C/H/S values on one of the hard disks. Cannot be 100% sure though as this was a while ago (two years?).
_____________________________________________________ | Martin Eriksson <nitrax@giron.wox.org> | MSc CSE student, department of Computing Science | Umeå University, Sweden
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