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Date:      Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:02:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Justin Kolb <jkolb@nutzy.net>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   i386/30801: ata UMDA problem
Message-ID:  <200109242202.f8OM2VH74080@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         30801
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       ata UMDA problem
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 24 15:10:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Justin Kolb
>Release:        4.4
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD wakko.nutzy.net 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Tue Sep 18 11:57:08 PDT 2001     murray@builder.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
ASUS P5A (UDMA 33 support) + Western Digital WD136AA (UDMA 66/33 drive) + 40 PIN cable
Large number of ICRC errors followed by a drop down to PIO4 mode. UDMA mode 2 is successfully detected in the bios for the drive during a verbose boot.

Attempts to prove it was a hardware/setup problem involved many tests with combinations of the following things:
1.) Switching between AUTO DMA and forced DMA in the BIOS
2.) Setting UDMA 33 on the drive (wasn't set in earlier tests).
3.) Swapping different 40-pin cables
4.) Running full Western Digitial diagnostic suite on drive (all OK)

Note I also had this problem under 4.3 (I believe the error message has changed though).
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Setting sysctl hw.atamodes to force PIO mode at startup, this still results in a few ICRC errors prior to the execution of this command during bootup.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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