From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 24 11:21:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D3637B87F for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 11:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.242.38]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 May 2000 11:21:26 -0700 Message-ID: <392C1D76.45133616@3-cities.com> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:20:38 -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: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: Grigoriy Strokin , Jim Weeks , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ad0 drivers revisited References: <200005241345.e4ODjqG21909@cwsys.cwsent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > In message <392AFEA3.46FDBDAD@3-cities.com>, Kent Stewart writes: > > > > > > 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" > > Actually, have you? Read it and see why it will probably not help here. I actually did. It seems like everyone was trying to add the equivalent of sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,---,dma,pio,---,dma,---, and adding hw.atamodes=pio,pio,---,dma,pio,---,dma,---, to /etc/sysctl.conf was its purpose in life or is it add to late in the process. Kent > > > > > 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 som > > e > > > > 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 tw > > o > > > > 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 > > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca > Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA > Province of BC -- 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