From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 00:11:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24AF116A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 00:11:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9514B43D41 for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 00:11:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@dawgiestyle.com) Received: from pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.23])2004))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:11:01 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ICW00GFJLUDJ280@pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:11:01 -0700 (MST) Received: from server.dawgiestyle.lan (S01060080c8d67c9e.ed.shawcable.net [68.148.128.53])2003)) freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:11:01 -0700 (MST) Received: (qmail 4769 invoked by uid 1022); Sun, 06 Mar 2005 00:11:01 +0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by server.dawgiestyle.lan (envelope-from , uid 82) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.83/718. spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:RC:1 (127.0.0.1):SA:0(-2.4/5.0):. Processed in 0.482981 secs); Sun, 06 Mar 2005 00:11:01 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server) (127.0.0.1) by 127.0.0.1 with SMTP; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 00:11:00 +0000 Received: from 192.168.1.101 (SquirrelMail authenticated user seadawg) by server with HTTP; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:11:00 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:11:00 -0700 (MST) From: Chris Warren In-reply-to: <20050305235826.83478.qmail@web54009.mail.yahoo.com> To: Rob Message-id: <34821.192.168.1.101.1110067860.squirrel@server> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: chris@dawgiestyle.com via server.dawgiestyle.lan X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):SA:0(-2.4/5.0):. Processed in 0.482981 secs) References: <20050305235826.83478.qmail@web54009.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: dma/sysctl X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 00:11:03 -0000 Definitely try a different IDE cable before anything else. Its cheap, and in my case, it solved the problem. If it doesn't, then at least you will have eliminated that as a possibility. Chris On Sat, March 5, 2005 4:58 pm, Rob said: > Luciano Musacchio wrote: >> Hi, >> I've a fbsd machine that hangs once in a while, >> I've this en /var/log/messages: >> ... >> Mar 5 14:44:58 chiba kernel: ad2: WARNING - >> WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) >> LBA=2949471 >> ... >> >> So, this means my hd is about to crash? >> How can I tell the kernel to reboot on such cases? >> (via sysctl?) > > This is 5.3, right? I bet you would not have such > problems with 4.X. > > My PC instantly crashed at boot with this same > message. I solved it by adding following to > /boot/loader.conf: > hw.ata.ata_dma="0" > > This will force the harddisk to operate in slow > PIO4 mode, but in my case the DMA trouble disappeared. > > Rob. > > > > > __________________________________ > Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! > Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web > http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >