harddisk problem in the 5.x series

[zoltan sandor]

Hi,

Thanks for your mail. Yes I tried again with 4.11 and
it still works without the error messages. It does not
really matter, because it works in 5.4 too. I just
have to live with the error messages I guess.
Thnaks anyway

Zoltan

--- Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> zoltan sandor <dr_sandor_zoltan at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > I have the following problem. I moved my system
> from
> > FreeBSD 4.11 to 5.4-RC3 by reinstalling
> everything.
> > The 4.11 system had no problem finding my MAXTOR
> hard
> > disk as ad3 as slave on the secondary IDE behind
> the
> > CDROM. The new 5.4 system indicates a lot of
> errors,
> > but finally accepts it and everything just works
> > fine. If I remove the hard drive the CDROM is
> > recognised without problems. My guess is that the
> > system tries to use higher PIO mode on the disk
> than
> > it is good for or something like that. Can anybody
> > explain how I can tune the kernel to avoid the
> error
> > messages? (BTW I have a GENERIC kernel.) dmesg
> > messages from the 4.11 and the 5.4-RC3 versions
> are
> > below.
> 
> I'm nothing like an ATA expert, but I wonder whether
> it might now fail
> on 4.11 also...  (bad cabling, etc.)
> 

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