From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 20 20:38:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ipfw.org (cr308584-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com [24.114.52.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5880437B403 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:38:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pccb@yahoo.com) Received: from apollo (apollo.objtech.com [192.168.111.5]) by mail.ipfw.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AAC73115 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:38:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:38:44 -0400 From: Peter Chiu X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53bis) Reply-To: Peter Chiu X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <43260029232.20010720233844@yahoo.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system lockup MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > It appears that something is terribly wrong in the path to the > data on ad4. The message makes me think that ad4 itself failed > to respond, but I suppose it's also possible that ata2 dropped > an interrupt or other signal, and I think that would result in > much the same symptom set. > > Have you tried setting ad4 to UDMA33 or PIO4 or PIO3, just to see > if it makes a difference? I have tried using a ata33 cable, and it is rock solid, no problem whatsoever. I didn't try PIO3/4 because UDMA33 works. > > Have you tried moving that disk to ata3, and leaving ata2 unused? > Doesn't make a different. I should had mentioned that the lockup only happen when it is running in UMDA66 mode. > Have you tried changing any other variables to see what effect > the change(s) had? Hmm... what other variables? -- Peter \\|// (o o) +-------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo-----------------------------+ EMail : mailto:pccb(at)yahoo(dot)com PGP Key : http://www.pchiu.com/pgpkey.txt PGP Fingerprint: 5167 897D A043 423E 9266 E67F 3A13 0394 B893 A931 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ We only support a 1200 bps connection. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message