From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 09:48:11 2004 Return-Path: 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 02BBD16A4CE; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:48:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3B543D1D; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:48:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from craig@small-pla.net) Received: from [212.227.126.161] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1CYi8f-0001Z8-00; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:48:09 +0100 Received: from [217.231.87.51] (helo=jupiter) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1CYi8A-0005jJ-00; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:47:38 +0100 From: "craig" To: "'Peter Risdon'" Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:47:11 +0100 Organization: small-pla.net Message-ID: <000a01c4d5f8$784af300$6500a8c0@jupiter> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <41A729E1.1060505@circlesquared.com> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:455859535b7de7b84111a2e321f2419d cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: craig@small-pla.net List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:48:11 -0000 >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