Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:47:11 +0100 From: "craig" <craig@small-pla.net> To: "'Peter Risdon'" <peter@circlesquared.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10) Message-ID: <000a01c4d5f8$784af300$6500a8c0@jupiter> In-Reply-To: <41A729E1.1060505@circlesquared.com>
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>DanGer wrote: >[...] >> >> >> i have the same issue on brand new 200gb ata maxtor hard drive. i had >> the same issue on 5.2.1, but when i upgraded to 5.3 i decided to turn on >> ata dma but after 9 days of uptime it froze..no logs, whatever...so i >> turned ata dma off for now, and i will stay and watch what will happen.. > >That's very helpful, thank you. The behaviour you describe - machine >freezing - is exactly what I have experienced. I'm feeling vaguely >optimistic now :-) > >> >> but there should be some other fix, because i don't want to keep my >> disc in pio mode :/ > >Absolutely. But I guess, since I'm not going to try to produce a fix >myself, I can't whinge too loudly. A workaround is what I need right now >and I hope you've confirmed that this is one. > >Peter. have you had any luck yet? i've disabled DMA at a bios level, but it seems to make no discernable difference. and the installation still fails... have the IDE drivers changed between 4.10 and 5.3? much thanks, --- craig@small-pla.net
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