From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 9 21:53:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cr759667-a.nvcr1.bc.wave.home.com (cr759667-a.nvcr1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.130.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 904B737B8BB for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 21:53:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fido@yaahoo.yi.org) Received: from localhost (fido@localhost) by cr759667-a.nvcr1.bc.wave.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA17364; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 21:55:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fido@yaahoo.yi.org) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 21:55:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Shaun (UNIX)" X-Sender: fido@cr759667-a.nvcr1.bc.wave.home.com To: fido the dog Cc: FreeBSD-current Subject: Re: ata, DMA and the install floppies In-Reply-To: <200003091901.VAA99897@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I was getting the same error, I have two HD's on a Addladin TXpro Chipset and two CD-ROM drives. I get ad1: READ command timeout -resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ata0-slave: WARNING: WAIT_READY active=ATA_ACTIVE_ATA BUT I have no ATA hard drives. Another thing I noticed with the install, is when it is probing for devices, it was trying to find PC_card0: but I had disable PC Card support in the kernel config (the install conflict screen for the install floppies) Anyways, other then that, things are going ok with my 4.0 RC3 install. Cheers Shaun On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, John Hay wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to install yesterday's 4.0 snap on a no-name brand > motherboard with the VIA chipset, but I'm running in some problems. I > suspect there is a problem with the DMA. The error I'm getting when the > disk is newfs'ed is a repeating: > > ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. done > ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. done > ... > > It seems that it is just going on and on. Shouldn't it back down to non > DMA mode after a while? Is there a way to disable the DMA on the install > floppies? > > Part of the probe looks like this: (written down by hand) > > atapci0: port 0xe000 - 0xe00f at device 7.1 on pci0 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ... > ad0: 6204MB [13446/15/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 > > John > -- > John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message