From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 14:55:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5389B37B401 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:55:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp0.euronet.nl (smtp0.euronet.nl [194.134.35.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 965CC43F75 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:55:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fierman@puscii.nl) Received: from [10.0.0.1] (ut-c-1974.mxs.adsl.euronet.nl [212.129.153.116]) by smtp0.euronet.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE84324698 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:55:29 +0200 (MEST) From: Fierman To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: puscii Message-Id: <1059091197.59338.12.camel@amiga.puscii> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 24 Jul 2003 23:59:57 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ATA identify retries exceeded (still!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: fierman@puscii.nl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:55:38 -0000 hello, I am driven almost insane by this ATA driver problem on a mini-atx machine. (device being a liteon DVD player): ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded 5.1, but also happened in 4.7 as well as 4.8. I am aware that it was a well known problem, but it appeared to be fixed from early this year on. The odd thing is that (ofcourse) the problem is rather hard to reproduce, sometimes the DVD wont get recognized for 10 boots in a row, sometimes it works perfect. possible solutions tried: - other IDE cable - other DVD player - hw.ata.atapi_dma to "0" or "1" in /boot/loader.conf - hw.ata.ata_dma to "0" or "1" in /boot/loader.conf - the odd bios fiddling all to no avail. is anyone still having the same problem with newer kernels? does anyone know of a solution? thanx in advance, Fierman