From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 23:13:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9694E16A4CE for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 23:13:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.arax.md (mail.arax.md [217.26.160.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C3E143D41 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 23:13:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cezar@arax.md) Received: from qvirtual (helo=mail.arax.md) by mail.arax.md with local-smtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1DPTon-0003O7-Ki for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 02:13:45 +0300 Received: from [217.26.167.217] (helo=[217.26.167.217]) by mail.arax.md with esmtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1DPTom-0003O0-WC for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 02:13:45 +0300 Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 02:13:38 +0300 From: Cezar Fistik X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.0.1.33) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <843420889.20050424021338@arax.md> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <86ba954f05042210506af5395b@mail.gmail.com> References: <1212701106.20050421194847@arax.md> <193906655.20050421220412@wanadoo.fr> <966265278.20050422121620@arax.md> <86ba954f05042210506af5395b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re[4]: WRITE_DMA problem again X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Cezar Fistik List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 23:13:47 -0000 Hello Kendall, Friday, April 22, 2005, 8:50:42 PM, you wrote: > Anyhow, my understanding is that the current work-around to this > problem is to turn DMA off for your ata drives. I guess this can be > done manually with the atacontrol command as I've been doing (though > as you'll see in my message linked above, I apparently need to do it > differently/sooner). I also understand that you can do so by setting > hw.ata.ata_dma="0" in /boot/loader.conf . Yes, I saw this suggestion in other posts, too. Well, I gave it a try. I disabled dma yesterday and today I got the following: Timecounter "TSC" frequency 498669235 Hz quality 800 ad0: 8693MB [17662/16/63] at ata0-master PIO4 ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_MUL retrying (2 retries left) LBA=1573151 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_MUL timed out That's something completely new. Does anyone know what that means? -- Best regards, Cezar mailto:cezar@arax.md