From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 07:19:31 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 8D40116A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 07:19:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from myway.com (nn2.excitenetwork.com [207.159.120.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CAE643D53 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 07:19:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ad5gb@myway.com) Received: by mprdmxin.myway.com (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5908112CE3; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 02:19:30 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from [216.37.88.44] by mprdmailfe4.nwk.myway.com via HTTP; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 02:19:30 EST X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: ID = 128a0ebfa26f56fa4b500b68f44300c3 From: "ad5gb" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: ad5gb@myway.com X-Mailer: PHP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20050203071930.5908112CE3@mprdmxin.myway.com> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 02:19:30 -0500 (EST) Subject: 5.3 ata / atapicam issues (update) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ad5gb@myway.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:19:31 -0000 Greetings, Just an update.... I pulled out the Promise adapter and connected my disk to the primary embedded IDE controller (max speed PIO 4) Left the atapi CDRW drive as a SLAVE on the secondary controller. Next, I tried ripping an audio CD with cdda2wav, and to my surprise, it was successful. The system did report several messages during the ripping process, like..... Feb 3 00:11:33 arabian kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left ) LBA=136492211 Feb 3 00:11:34 arabian kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out Feb 3 00:11:39 arabian kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left ) LBA=136414323 Feb 3 00:11:39 arabian kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out Feb 3 00:12:05 arabian kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left ) LBA=137621267 Feb 3 00:12:05 arabian kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out Feb 3 00:12:11 arabian kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left ) LBA=137543379 Feb 3 00:12:11 arabian kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out but it was successful. I disabled all ATA DMA (hw.ata.ata_dma="0" my in loader.conf) and tried to rip the disk again. It completed without a single error. Further, I was able to burn 5 CDs on the same drive at ridiculous speeds (48X reported by cdrecord) without a single issue. Hope this helps someone. I'm not at all sure where/what the problem is but I'll be happy to run on the embedded controller for the time being. (while PIO 4 != DMA 133, reliability/functionality is king!) If there's any way I can help solve this issue.... just say how! Kind regards -- Randall D. DuCharme (Radio AD5GB) Powered by FreeBSD! The Power to Serve _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com