From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 25 1:24:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (ftp.golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B679137B4CF for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 01:24:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from [203.164.12.28] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AH9370.63.d1acf55c) with ESMTP id sqasaaaa for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 20:30:25 +1100 Message-ID: <3A1F855E.AC1135BC@quake.com.au> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 20:24:46 +1100 From: Kal Torak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Behlendorf Cc: FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: more ata0 problems References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Behlendorf wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Kal Torak wrote: > > ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > > ata0: resetting devices .. done > [..] > > This was on my IBM laptop, and I have had no problems with any of > > the previous versions... > > It would seem there must be some bug in the ata driver? > > I suspect that it's a matter of a new diagnostic suddenly causing people > to think there's a new error present, when they simply didn't see it > before. I started seeing it when I did an upgrade a month ago too, and > thought it was an error, before I realized I really WAS having drive > problems. The only other explanation is that the ata driver is somehow > causing these new errors to appear, but I consider that unlikely; since > getting a new hard drive (same model, same machine, etc) I'm not seeing > the errors, and the old hard drive died hard (unable to even boot now) not > something I'd suspect the ata driver of causing. Yeah I would agree except that it only happens in udma mode, PIO mode dosent generate any errors at all... Am I supposed to use my udma disks in PIO mode? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message