From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 21:01:36 2003 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 2B66816A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:01:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.covadmail.net (mx05.covadmail.net [63.65.120.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A87D43D2C for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:01:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from strick@covad.net) Received: (covad.net 869 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2003 05:01:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mist.nodomain) (68.164.174.147) by sun-qmail08 with SMTP; 11 Dec 2003 05:01:27 -0000 Received: from mist.nodomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mist.nodomain (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBB51Hrj000357; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:01:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@mist.nodomain) Received: (from dan@localhost) by mist.nodomain (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hBB51H4B000356; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:01:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:01:17 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Strick Message-Id: <200312110501.hBB51H4B000356@mist.nodomain> To: current@freebsd.org cc: re@freebsd.org cc: dan@mist.nodomain Subject: 5.2-RC1: massive immediate failure (ata driver) 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, 11 Dec 2003 05:01:36 -0000 I just attempted to install 5.2-RC1 and had to give up before the kernel on the bootstrap floppy finished booting. When it tried to access my Serial ATA disks, it started slowly spitting out a possibly endless stream of error messages. This one is typical: ad4: WARNING - READ DMA recovered from missing interrupt I eventually gave up and aborted the boot. I suppose I could disable the SATA controller in the BIOS, but I don't see much point in doing that since the SATA disks are an essential part of my system. I have a 2.8 GHz hyperthreaded P4 on a Gigabyte 8KNXP motherboard. It uses the Intel 875P/ICH5R support chipset. FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.1 boot and run just fine on this system. This is the output from "dmesg | grep ata" when running FreeBSD 4.9: atapci0: port 0xf000-0xf00f,0-0x3,0-0x7,0-0x3,0-0x7 irq 9 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 atapci1: port 0xd000-0xd00f,0xcc00-0xcc03,0xc800-0xc807,0xc400-0xc403,0xc000-0xc007 irq 9 at device 31.2 on pci0 ata2: at 0xc000 on atapci1 ata3: at 0xc800 on atapci1 ad0: 78167MB [158816/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad1: 78167MB [158816/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100 ad4: 114473MB [232581/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 ad6: 114473MB [232581/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 acd0: CD-RW at ata1-master UDMA33 Dan Strick strick@covad.net