From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 26 13:30:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A962016A41F for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:30:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8D243D46 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:30:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i21so113813wra for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 06:30:49 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=oDVwb9T7Vp2Q/bz/Ss3Yqbdkh/WRHnTQZtjaxb6eVmrCnvMPQWYoTlOobtky2P0wPlZckqEkRRW1icIHQ6kCz/GPqBJryhNwT/LZTP/04SEEhEd9E/73WwQfcGkBAKd/RwthxGHd3g9hB16cpHg4ZOo4Rf8vhImXTMkVZqYBR+M= Received: by 10.54.67.6 with SMTP id p6mr124470wra; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 06:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.38.32 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 06:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <70e8236f050726063075c92801@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:30:49 +0100 From: Joao Barros To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "J. Porter Clark" In-Reply-To: <20050726021843.GA1118@auricle.charter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050726021843.GA1118@auricle.charter.net> Cc: Subject: Re: Quality of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joao Barros List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:30:50 -0000 On 7/26/05, J. Porter Clark wrote: > >On 7/25/05, J. Porter Clark wrote: > >> > >> The ATA (definitely not SATA) controller on my Dell Latitude > >> C840 laptop has READ_DMA, WRITE_DMA problems, maybe 2-3 times > >> a day unless I turn off DMA. It hangs for 3-4 seconds, logs > >> errors, then proceeds. It isn't heavily loaded. I tried using > >> Soren's ATA mkIII patches, and now it likes to panic about that > >> same frequency instead of hanging, so I'm going back to the > >> stock RELENG_5 config next chance I get. > >> > >> It's one of these: > >> > >> atapci0: port 0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x= 170-0x177,0x 3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0 >=20 > >Your going back to stock RELENG_5 from what? >=20 > RELENG_5 with Soren's patches. >=20 > >I have that very same laptop running FreeBSD from 5.0 up to 5.4 with > >absolutely no DMA problems using it. > >Note: I did exchange the HDD from 20 to 60GB, different brands. >=20 > Might be a clue. My laptop has this: >=20 > ad0: 19077MB at ata0-master UDMA100 >=20 Mine is: ad0: 57231MB [116280/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 > Typical errors: > Jul 23 15:00:33 auricle kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 re= tries left) LBA=3D20586350 > Jul 25 09:01:52 auricle kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_MUL retrying (2 ret= ries left) LBA=3D1731115 >=20 > I had been running 4.X on this box with no DMA problems until I > put 5.3 on it many months ago. It also boots Windows XP, and I > don't have any obvious disk problems with that. > I dual boot between XP and FreeBSD and even use VMWare to boot FreeBSD with the real partition. Nice having FreeBSD compiling something in the background while using XP :) =20 > Do you have trouble with the touchpad occasionally going nuts? > I had mine replaced, and it still does it. With any OS I care > to boot. That is a keyboard problem (the pointer device in the keyboard) I had one exchanged on this C840 and 2 others on a C610. >=20 > I have some Firewire-related problems, too, but I won't go into > them right now. I *think* I tested networking and attached storage with firewire. If you care to email me with your problems I can try see if it happens to me too. -- Joao Barros