Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:09:21 -0500 From: "freebsd" <brain_damaged@florida-wireless.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: ata/100 controller Message-ID: <008501c1b885$dca66ca0$1aa8a8c0@mdd> References: <E16cnuP-0004fh-00@scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
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I have three hard drives in my freebsd machine. a maxtor,wd and seagate. They show as being dma 2 , ultra dma 2 and ultra dma 4. This is from when booting up ad0: 1223MB <ST51270A> [2485/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2 ad1: 4104MB <WDC AC34300L> [8896/15/63] at ata0-slave WDMA2 ata1-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable ad2: 12982MB <Maxtor 91360U4> [26377/16/63] at ata1-master PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a I get alot of timeout errors: ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done and the part about non ata66 complaint cable. I assumed that the timeouts were from the FreeBsd detecting these higher/faster hd and they were connected to a regular onboard hd controller. so I went a bought a maxtor utlra pci ata/100 controller. I connected all 3 drives. removed them from the bios standard setup and rebooted. All 3 drives are found. System starts to boot then I run into a problem were it ask for me to manual enter the root bootfile system. I have no clue or idea what it is asking for ? I did a while back do a tune -nfs on all the drives thinking that might remove the problem but it did nothing that I know of. I really can not afford to lose the data on the drives and I would reallly like to see if the controller will take care of these timeout problems so I am not sure what I have to do to get the system to boot with the ultra 100 controller. What would I put in the line for root filesystem ? doing a ? gives me a list of options but no idea. thanks mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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