From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 18 8:50:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE17715070 for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 08:50:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id RAA15668 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 17:50:09 +0100 (CET) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA04225; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 17:31:49 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 17:31:49 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199912181631.RAA04225@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9912141058001.26922-100000@spirit.dynas.se> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: Last ATA checkin broke the IDE drive on my Toshiba Portege X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.current To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mikael Hybsch <micke@dynas.se> wrote: > Now it says it's using DMA and after the "Mounting root from ..." message, > I get > ad0: ad_timeout: lost disk contact - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. > and then it hangs with the disk activity led on. <AOL mode> me too </AOL> Happens on an IBM Thinkpad 755 (older model, 486/75), at the moment sysinstall accesses the disk the first time. Eventually it will then panic for `going to nowhere without my init'. No idea which controller, it's not a PCI machine so nothing known about it. When making ata the default driver, i'd vote for keeping one instance of a wdc driver (disabled by default) so the bottleneck of not being able to install in such a case could be circumvented. If space goes scarce, we could always throw out matcdc, scd, mcd and wt from the installation floppies... I guess their user base has been rapidly fading during the last years. scd is only confusing people anyway since more than one luser so far assumed this stands for `SCSI CD'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message