From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 8 5:19: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.student.utwente.nl (cal30b054.student.utwente.nl [130.89.229.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146FE1500A for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 05:19:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl) Received: by phoenix.student.utwente.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1DC023B; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:19:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phoenix.student.utwente.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1520532; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:19:04 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:19:03 +0100 (CET) From: Theo van Klaveren X-Sender: havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl To: Soren Schmidt Cc: Theo van Klaveren , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA driver timeout In-Reply-To: <200001081305.OAA44258@freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: > > > > I'm in doubt as to the first drive though: The BIOS says it's 'Mode 4', > > is that the same as WDMA2? Could the harddisk be reporting the wrong > > value, even though the BIOS is giving the correct one? I'm just grasping > > at straws here. > > Mode 4 is PIO4 that is no DMA, it could very well be the problem, > WD has made a lot of problematic drives in this area. > You could try to comment out the dmainit call in ata-disk.c and > see if that helps you. That helps me, but if I'm not mistaken it also disabled UDMA33 on the second drive. Ah well.. at least I can boot an ATA kernel now. > And yes, I'm working on a way to set this from useland... That'd be really nice, though if the kernel doesn't even boot to single user mode, I don't see how this would help users with this problem, as you'd have to do it before reboot. Thanks for the swift reply, /^\ | Theo van Klaveren /^\\_//^\ | http://phoenix.student.utwente.nl ICQ #1353681 \_/-|-\_/ | / | This email was powered by FreeBSD `He's the mad scientist, and I'm his beautiful daughter.' - opening sentence from Heinlein's 'The number of the beast' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message