From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 23:35:37 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 8086516A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:35:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from asmtp03.eresmas.com (asmtp03.eresmas.com [62.81.235.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E971A43D31 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:35:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ea1abz@wanadoo.es) Received: from [192.168.108.58] (helo=mx01.eresmas.com) by asmtp03.eresmas.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D1Yhi-0002M4-98; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:35:34 +0100 Received: from [80.103.43.142] (helo=[80.103.43.142]) by mx01.eresmas.com with asmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1D1Yhh-00084R-DC; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:35:34 +0100 Message-ID: <4213D8D7.7000208@wanadoo.es> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:35:51 +0100 From: Ramiro Aceves User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob , freebsd-questions-en References: <20050216143105.57059.qmail@web54003.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050216143105.57059.qmail@web54003.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Subject: Re: UDMA ICRC error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:35:37 -0000 Rob wrote: > Ramiro Aceves wrote: > >>I have read that others had this problem before. I >>just write this report for you to know. >> >>When I installed FreeBSD 5.3 R, I get some errors >>like this, but I could end the install: >> >>ad0: WARNING -READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying >> request) LBA=5313599 >>ad0: FAILURE -READ_DMA status=51 >> error=84 >ICRC,ABORTED> >>spec_getpages:(ad0s1a) I/O read failure: (error=5) >>................ >> >>I have solved the problem disabling DMA: >>hw.ata.ata_dma="0" >> >>(I previously tried disabling ACPI with no success, >>and playing with BIOS LBA, LARGE, NORMAL settings >>at the BIOS with no success). >> >>Now ad0: works in PIO4 mode and everything is fine, >>previously , it was UDMA33. Now there are no errors. > > > There's you and me now. I have this problem with two > of my PCs. I don't know yet of anybody else who has > these problems. > > It's indeed a serious problem, but too few people > running 5.3 seem to suffer from this. > > Have you tried with 4.11? > I bet that would not generate these problems. > Thanks, I see that we are not alone! I have not got a 4.11 CDROM here. I could test it on 4.10 if you think it is important, I have a 4.10 CDROM here. My internet is too slow to dowload a full CDROM at home. I can download 4.11 install CDROM on the computers at University if it worths the effort. Please let me know. Ramiro. > Regards, > Rob. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >