From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 11:18:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDDC616A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:18:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from geri.cc.fer.hr (geri.cc.fer.hr [161.53.72.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E609343D41 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:18:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ivoras@fer.hr) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (root@geri.cc.fer.hr [161.53.72.107]) by geri.cc.fer.hr (8.12.9p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i61AoXsU032119 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:50:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ivoras@fer.hr) Message-ID: <40E3ECCD.4090504@fer.hr> Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:51:57 +0200 From: Ivan Voras User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ATA problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:18:04 -0000 I tried to upgrade 5.2.1 system to 5-current, and came across a weird problem: one of my disks (with the root partition, ofcourse...) is being misdetected as being SATA150 and having a large garbage-looking number of TBs for size (as well as identifier consisting of < P P P...>. The weird thing is: I isolated the problem to inclusion of WITNESS in the kernel. If the WITNESS is commented out of the kernel config, the above error occurs, if the WITNESS is present, there's no error. (I tried lots of other options like fiddling with INVARIANTS, but it really is the presence WITNESS option that causes it). My make.conf only contains use.perl variables. The system works perfectly with 5.2.1-RELEASE, and WinXP (dual boot). Other drives in the system, as well as CD reader and CD writer drives are recognized ok. Motherboard is oldish VIA KT133A (VIA 82C686B UDMA 100 controller, which is recognized correctly in every case). The error is "timeout READ_MUL - retrying", accompanied by a worrying sound from the drive, similar, bot not quite equal, to the drive spinning down... -- What part of "Ph'nglui mglw'nath Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" don't you understand?