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From: bharbour@teleport.com (Bob Harbour)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PCI IDE adapter problems with v2.15
Date: 6 Jan 1997 04:38:28 GMT
Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: bharbour@teleport.com (Bob Harbour) wrote:
: > The system shows the PCI - IDE adapter during the boot up, but doesn't
: > attach a driver. It uses the ISA - IDE driver.
snip
: Did you try operating the disk in a slower mode? The disk is usually
: initialized by the BIOS to some sort of PIO mode, and FreeBSD simply
: doesn't change this. So if this was overdriving your disk interface,
: it might cause data corruption later. AFAIR, most PCI BIOSes try to
: auto-probe the allowable PIO speed.
The bios setup shows modes 0-4 or 0-3, and I tried executing in all of
these modes with similar results. I did not try re-installing in each
mode, so if there is some info embedded in the format, it didn't get
changed between tests. There is also an Auto mode which is what I was
using when I installed the system.
Thanks
--
Bob Harbour
bharbour_AT_teleport_DOT_com