From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 17:39:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E4516A4CE; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 17:39:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web2.merit.edu (web2.merit.edu [198.108.62.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837BC43D2F; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 17:39:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from web@merit.edu) Received: by web2.merit.edu (Postfix, from userid 9050) id C751E185F; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 13:39:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 13:39:11 -0400 From: William Bulley To: David O'Brien Message-ID: <20050408173911.GK16883@web2.merit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: William Bulley , David O'Brien , freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems installing FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on UltraSPARC IIe X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:39:12 -0000 According to David O'Brien : > > > After more searching I saw someone's post about setting > > hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 at boot time. > > This is the correct fix for this. Great. Thanks! > > At this point I searched the mailing lists for help and someone > > suggested to replace the disk drive. So, I replaced the disk drive (40 > > GB Western Digital) that came with the Sun Blade 150 with a brand new > > 40 GB Western Digital drive and got the same thing. > .. > > ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out > > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=1 > > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=0 > > The correct fix to this is to return to using the stock Sun drive. They > seemed to have tweaked the firmware of the disks they use to work with > the POS ATA controller the Blade 100/150 uses. When my Sun stock drive > died, I went thru pure hell trying to find a disk that would work OK. > > Of 5 40GB drives I tried, only an IBM IC35L040AVVN07 worked (has > IC35L040AVVN07-0/VA2OAF0C firmware) works OK (no *_DMA timeouts) at ATA66. Damn! This is terrible news. Thanks for the reply -- I really appreciate it and I can identify with the "pure hell" part, grrrr.... :-) I have swapped entire Sun Blades, I have swapped disk drives (twice) and no joy. :-( All the Sun Blades we have here have Western Digital 40 GB IDE drives in them. We only have Western Digital 40 GB IDE as spares, obviously, duh... I will have to see about getting an IBM IC35L040AVVN07 drive, sigh... Thanks again. (this is such a pain...) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu