From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 23 14:58: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D20937B941 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 14:58:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.62]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 23 May 2000 14:58:06 -0700 Message-ID: <392AFEA3.46FDBDAD@3-cities.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 14:56:51 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig (BOSS Internet Group) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grigoriy Strokin Cc: Jim Weeks , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ad0 drivers revisited References: <20000522182937.C9843@pir.net> <20000523162722.A97474@isabase.philol.msu.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Grigoriy Strokin wrote: > > On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 07:26:50PM -0400, Jim Weeks wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 May 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > > > > > > Define "it doesn't work" ? > > > > ad0: 4884MB [10585/15/63] at ata0-master using BIOSDMA > > ata1-slave: simplex device, DMA on primary only > > acd0: CDROM at ata1-slave using BIOSPIO > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > In my case, I see the message 'dma,dma -> pio,pio' > at this point. Maybe try /sbin/sysctl instead > of just sysctl? Have you all done a "man sysctl.conf" Kent > > > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting > > ata0: resetting devices .. done > > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting > > ata0: resetting devices .. done > > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting > > ata0: resetting devices .. done > > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting > > ata0-master: timeout waiting to give command=ef s=eb e=eb > > ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode > > ata0: resetting devices .. done > > > > > > > > It doesn't switch to pio mode or doesn't stop timeouts ? > > > > There is no change in the timeouts with or without adding the line to > > rc. At least it does eventually fall back to PIO. I understand from some > > of the posts that not every case is so. > > > > > If there was a fix known, for it to be scheduled, it would probably > > > already be in the tree. > > > > I was actually hoping that someone with a fix in the works would > > respond ;-) > > > > I do appreciate your response though. My late Father always said that two > > heads were better than one, even if one is a punkin head. Of course that > > one would be mine ;_) > > > > Jim Weeks > > -------- A mind is a terrible thing to lose! How I miss mine.. > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > -- > === Grigoriy Strokin, Lomonosov University (MGU), Moscow === > === contact info: http://isabase.philol.msu.ru/~grg/ === > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message