From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 21 6:48:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C18215432 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 06:48:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA82306; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:48:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199912211448.PAA82306@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Problems with the ATA-driver In-Reply-To: from Theo van Klaveren at "Dec 21, 1999 03:42:44 pm" To: havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl (Theo van Klaveren) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:48:19 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: > > When installing the 08-dec-1999 snapshot (before ATA went in GENERIC), > a recompile from the kernel with the ATA driver instead of the WD > driver resulted in an unbootable system because of the following > error (approx.): > > mounting root /dev/ad0s1a > ata-master: lost disk contact > ata: resetting devices .. > > After this, the machine hangs and doesn't respond to anything but a push > on the Big Red Button. A few days later, this was fixed by Soren (sp?) but > it broke again as I recompiled my system yesterday (This was the first > time after it had been fixed, so I don't know when exactly it broke). > > Harddisks: Western Digital Caviar (2.0 GB), non-DMA and > Western Digital Caviar (2.5 GB), DMA-33. > Mainboard: Asus P5A-B Super7 > Chipset: ALi Aladdin V AGPset It probably because I relaxed the requirements for doing WDMA on disks that doesn't bother to tell whihc verson of the ATA spec they conform to. I think your case is the more seldom one, but I'm this close to blacklisting all WD/Maxtor drives, that would make life alot easier... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message