From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 12:31:21 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 BA27F16A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:31:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from cmsrelay02.mx.net (cmsrelay02.mx.net [165.212.11.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D05C43D53 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:31:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from noackjr@compgeek.com) Received: from cmsapps01.cms.usa.net (165.212.11.136) by cmsoutbound.mx.net with SMTP; 29 Jan 2004 20:31:18 -0000 Received: from optimator.noacks.org [65.71.34.236] by cmsapps01.cms.usa.net (ASMTP/noackjr@usa.net) via mtad (C8.MAIN.3.13N) with ESMTP id 650iaCufP0382M36; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:31:15 GMT X-USANET-Auth: 65.71.34.236 AUTH noackjr@usa.net optimator.noacks.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6146860FD; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:31:14 -0600 (CST) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06422-03; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:31:13 -0600 (CST) Received: from compgeek.com (optimator [192.168.1.11]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2035860E7; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:31:13 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <40196D90.5020604@compgeek.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:31:12 -0600 From: Jon Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5a (20040105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Panagiotis Astithas References: <20040125111743.GA564@bsd> <401672F7.8080404@noc.ntua.gr> <4018F64A.2090906@noc.ntua.gr> In-Reply-To: <4018F64A.2090906@noc.ntua.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at noacks.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System still hangs with "ata1-master: TIMEOUT - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@compgeek.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:31:21 -0000 On 1/29/2004 6:02 AM, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > Panagiotis Astithas wrote: >> Lefteris Chatzibarbas wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Devices are: >>> >>> ad0: ATA-6 disk at ata0-master >>> acd0: DVDROM drive at ata1 as master >>> acd1: CDRW drive at ata1 as slave >>> >>> Verbose boot of a good kernel: >>> >>> http://members.hellug.gr/lefcha/dmesg.out >>> >>> System still hangs during boot with the message: >>> >>> ata1-master: TIMEOUT - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE retrying (0 >>> retries left) >>> >>> >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-January/016880.html >>> >>> ... didn't correct the problem. >>> >>> Thanks >> >> "Me too". >> Same controller, same hard disk, only one device on the second channel: >> acd0: DVDROM at ata1-master UDMA33 >> I used 5.2-RELEASE and the -current snapshot form 24/1. The former >> freezes after the "TIMEOUT" message, the latter just locks up solid. >> The machine runs happily a -current from last October though. > > > I found out that booting with "Safe mode" (I knew there should be some > use for it :-)) allows me to complete the process and get to sysinstall, > in both 5.2-RELEASE & the -current snapshot from 24/1. But I tried to do > the same from the loader prompt, to no avail. I used the following and > then "boot" or "boot -v" but every attempt resulted in the traditional > freeze. > > unset acpi_load > set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 > set loader.acpi_disabled_by_user=1 > set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 > set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 > set hw.ata.wc=0 > set hw.eisa_slots=0 > > From what I can tell from the beastie.4th file, that is all that should > be needed. Am I missing something? You missed disabling apic: set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 Jon Noack