From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 25 01:20:23 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508AC282 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:20:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cross+freebsd@distal.com) Received: from mail.distal.com (mail.distal.com [IPv6:2001:470:e24c:200::ae25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18026F53 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:20:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from magrathea.distal.com (magrathea.distal.com [IPv6:2001:470:e24c:200:ea06:88ff:feca:960e]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.distal.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r2P1KJQN020907 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:20:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Ross Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: CAM timeouts on Netra X1 Message-Id: Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:20:19 -0400 To: "freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (mail.distal.com [IPv6:2001:470:e24c:200::ae25]); Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:20:22 -0400 (EDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:20:23 -0000 This may not be sparc64 specific, but. I have a Netra X1 that I've = been netbooting, to eventually install FreeBSD onto its disks. Booting = a recent stable/9. with the old disks (one 80G, one 250G), I would see = the following [sort] of errors during [net]boot: (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): READ_DMA48. ACB: 25 00 cf cf b5 40 25 00 00 00 01 00 (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): Retrying command (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): READ_DMA48. ACB: 25 00 cf cf b5 40 25 00 00 00 01 00 (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): Retrying command (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): READ_DMA48. ACB: 25 00 cf cf b5 40 25 00 00 00 01 00 (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): Retrying command (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): READ_DMA48. ACB: 25 00 cf cf b5 40 25 00 00 00 01 00 (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): Retrying command (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): READ_DMA48. ACB: 25 00 cf cf b5 40 25 00 00 00 01 00 (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout (ada0:ata2:0:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted In the past, with the old disks, it was ada1, not ada0, and that was = the 250G disk that has been reporting errors when the system was running = off of it (NetBSD 5.1). So I assumed that was the problem. However, = I've replaced the disks with a pair of 320GB disks, and am now having = that same problem and messages both during boot, and when trying to = configure the disks with gpart, for both disks. Is this some sort of size issue? And, is there any way around it? = NetBSD works on the machine, so I assume it's not that the hardware is = deficient in some way with larger PATA disks... - Chris