Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:18:02 +0200
From:      Pertti Kosunen <pertti.kosunen@pp.nic.fi>
To:        "Arno J. Klaassen" <arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA - A possible FIX! turn off ACPI
Message-ID:  <41D2AE8A.6060507@pp.nic.fi>
In-Reply-To: <wpu0q5opa8.fsf@heho.snv.jussieu.fr>
References:  <20041209183911.068c9a84.kutizs@axelero.hu> <41D0C51D.8020800@osoft.us> <wpu0q5opa8.fsf@heho.snv.jussieu.fr>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Arno J. Klaassen wrote:

>dunno, I'd more suspect ACPI<->APIC issues : untill now
>I only had problems on nForce based systems, but today I 
>installed a brand new VIA based A7VT mini-server and
>re-voila les "XXX_DMA" errors (and accompanying severe
>system slow-down).
>(Disk swapped from the old PII-233 minimalist-server; worked
>OK there; disabling APIC (in BOIS and/or config and/or hints)
>made disappear the XXX_DMA messages (and gave me my network
>connexion back ;) ) whilst ACPI still enabled).
>

No help here with ACPI or APIC disabled/enabled in any order.

First ata-channel works ok with 40GB & 120GB disks, but second channel 
with single 160GB disk has *_DMA issues. 160GB disk works ok at PIO4 mode.

Asus A7A266 motherboard with ALI chipset & Athlon 1333MHz processor.
FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE (&RELEASE)



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?41D2AE8A.6060507>