Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:45:59 +0000 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: DanGer <danger@wilbury.sk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10) Message-ID: <41A74FB7.4010907@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <859059364.20041126162622@wilbury.sk> References: <000001c4d3af$0dd69240$6500a8c0@jupiter> <41A725C2.30204@circlesquared.com> <41A729E1.1060505@circlesquared.com> <859059364.20041126162622@wilbury.sk>
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DanGer wrote: [...] > > > i have the same issue on brand new 200gb ata maxtor hard drive. i had > the same issue on 5.2.1, but when i upgraded to 5.3 i decided to turn on > ata dma but after 9 days of uptime it froze..no logs, whatever...so i > turned ata dma off for now, and i will stay and watch what will happen.. That's very helpful, thank you. The behaviour you describe - machine freezing - is exactly what I have experienced. I'm feeling vaguely optimistic now :-) > > but there should be some other fix, because i don't want to keep my > disc in pio mode :/ Absolutely. But I guess, since I'm not going to try to produce a fix myself, I can't whinge too loudly. A workaround is what I need right now and I hope you've confirmed that this is one. Peter. -- the circle squared network systems and software http://www.circlesquared.com
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