Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:57:28 -0800 (PST) From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@wanadoo.es>, freebsd-questions-en <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: UDMA ICRC error Message-ID: <20050216235728.60015.qmail@web54007.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4213D8D7.7000208@wanadoo.es>
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--- Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@wanadoo.es> wrote: > 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<READY,DSC,ERROR> > >> 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" > >> > > > > 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. No, no need for that. It's already confirmed that 4.X does not have this problem. However, recently there's a 'ATA mkIII' patch around, which seems to also solve this problem. Follow the discussion on -stable mailinglist for further details. I'm not yet sure whether you have to upgrade first to "5-STABLE" before applying this patch. Rob. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
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