From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 17:53:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f249.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D8137B417 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:53:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:53:07 -0800 Received: from 68.6.82.67 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:53:07 GMT X-Originating-IP: [68.6.82.67] From: "Charles Burns" To: ja_botha@hotmail.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: **Strange message in dmesg** Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:53:07 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Mar 2002 01:53:07.0799 (UTC) FILETIME=[7AB22E70:01C1D20D] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG IANAKH (kernel hacker), but I believe that has to do with detection of really big drives (>137GB) a la Maxtor's "Big drive" initiative. I'd check to make sure your drive is running in the DMA mode that you want, make sure you have an 80 conductor IDE cable, and if all is well I would venture to guess that FreeBSD is sending a query to the drive asking if it uses the 48-bit addressing scheme that Maxtor invented, and the drive has no clue WTF the IDE driver is talking about so doesn't respond, then the ATA driver resets the bus to be safe (after a non-response to a query). This is all speculation, mind you. If everything works, probably nothing to be worried about. >Hi, I get the following message when I boot: > >ad0: 28629MB [58168/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 >(null): MODE_SENSE_BIG command timeout - resetting >ata1: resetting devices .. done > >After the first line is displayed, there is a delay and then the other two >follow. The system boots fine and there are no other problems. I'm running >FreeBSD 4.3 > >Is this something of concern? Please tell me what this message is trying to >tell me. Thanx >Jan _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message