From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 5 6: 3: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFE837B405 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 06:03:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tiscali.it (mail-2.tiscali.it [195.130.225.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0EFB43EA9 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 06:03:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fcasadei@inwind.it) Received: from goku.kasby (217.133.210.203) by mail.tiscali.it (6.5.032) id 3DFF4C1300945222 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 15:02:59 +0100 Received: (qmail 8054 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Jan 2003 14:02:46 -0000 Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 15:02:46 +0100 From: Francesco Casadei To: Bruce Campbell Cc: Francesco Casadei , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ata "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems Message-ID: <20030105140246.GA8010@goku.kasby> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce Campbell , Francesco Casadei , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1041368236.3e1204ac45da5@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> <20030102163812.GA2350@goku.kasby> <1041532923.3e1487fb50a0e@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1041532923.3e1487fb50a0e@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:42:03PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: [snip] >=20 > I don't have it enabled: >=20 > hw.ata.tags: 0 >=20 > I've manually set: >=20 > atacontrol mode 0 UDMA33 UDMA33 >=20 > and the problem has not recurred. >=20 > --=20 > Bruce Campbell > Engineering Computing > CPH-2374B > University of Waterloo > (519)888-4567 ext 5889 >=20 > ---------------------------------------- > This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 > end of the original message Yesterday I checked the drive ad6 with the Drive Fitness Test program from = IBM. Both quick and advanced test returned that the drive is ok. I then ran the = test against ad0 (the backup drive): the quick test showed that the drive was defective because of "Excessive Shock". Re-executing the test gave same res= ult. I rebooted the system and disabled the S.M.A.R.T. option for the drive atta= ched to the motherboard's controller (i.e. the backup drive). Re-executing the q= uick test showed that the drive is ok! After 16 hours of uptime and one level-0 file system dump all drives are st= ill using UDMA100. If for some reason the system will fall back again to PIO4 mode I will try = to remove the two following options from the kernel: # ISA optimization options AUTO_EOI_1 options AUTO_EOI_2 If the problem won't still be solved then I will try in order the following: - disable tagged queuing - buy different hardware! Francesco Casadei --=20 You can download my public key from http://digilander.libero.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B0 7EC3 375F 164E B17B --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+GDsFfsM3XxZOsXsRArIzAJ9NekNr4/0hWDqJ9l9vkE3Hjl5oEACg37j4 6AjM1QIIQYHBKxTKwdEYCj4= =SKt2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message