From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 7 7:25:51 2003 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 4E8CC37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:25:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (oe65.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.18.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9693743F85 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:25:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from b1henning@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:25:47 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [192.216.212.193] From: "Brian Henning" To: "freebsd" Subject: ad0 lockups Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:23:32 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Mar 2003 15:25:47.0504 (UTC) FILETIME=[D3E97700:01C2E4BD] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello- I am get lockup on my bsd machine. I took out a working bsd bootable HD and put it in my new AMD XP 2100+ machine. It booted fine the first time but after a while i got the following errors. Errors ------ ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 : resetting ata0: resetting devices .. ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded Hardware: --------- ASUS A7N8X, supports up to : ATA 133 AMD XP 2100+ WD300BB Hard drive, ad0 note: primary master, only drive on the chain, 30 gig drive, 7200 rpm synopsis after reading the mailing list archives: ------------------------------------------------- I may have DMA enabled on the drive when the drive does not support it. is this a bios setting that i need to make or do i need the following change? /boot/loader.conf ----------------- hw.ata.ata_dma=0 I may have a 40 conductor ribbon cable instead of an 80 pin cable. is the conductor value printed on the ide cable? is there anything else that i can do to avoid these errors? thanks, brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message