After Partitioning a Drive: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRCerror (retrying request)

[Gary W. Swearingen]

Mark Kane <mark at mkproductions.org> writes:

> This is a brand new motherboard. Giga-Byte GA-K8NS Pro. FreeBSD
> 5.4-RELEASE (amd64).
>
> I was also doing some searching around and found a list post about
> FreeBSD 5 and DMA write problems:

I've got a GA-K8NSC-939 running 5.4-R (i386) with two 80GB using
UDMA100 that I've run pretty hard occasionally with dump/restore, diff
-r kind of operations, with no problems.  I ran 5.4-R (amd64) lightly
for a few days without noticing disk problems.

You said one of your disks was a slave. I've read rumors that that's
a bad thing if its master is a CDROM, but I'd think it should just
run slower than it's capable of.