FreeBSD and serial ata

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Wed Nov 5 07:18:29 PST 2003


At 03:44 AM 05/11/2003, Rumen Telbizov wrote:
>Hi
>
> > If I dont have the BIOS set to SATA only, I can make the system repeatedly
> > crash by running bonnie with a -s value twice the size of the RAM on the
> > machine.  So far it seems to run fine in this mode. I can provide more
> > details if you are interested.
>
>Hmm, I tested my sata discs with bonnie++ and rawio (yeah I did not have
>information on that disc) and also loaded the system with *heavy*

I am wondering if its the one motherboard.  I just tried the same thing on 
another system with identical setup and its fine.  The problem seems to 
follow the motherboard, so for now I will chalk it up to faulty hardware. 
We changed everything (CPU, Power, RAM etc) and the problem followed the MB.

         ---Mike



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