From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 18 01:58:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB5C16A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:58:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24AEF43D31 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:58:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@spider.deepcore.dk) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0I9vamK077549; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:57:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos@spider.deepcore.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i0I9vaxh077548; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:57:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <200401180957.i0I9vaxh077548@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <87r7xy5ek2.fsf@strauser.com> To: Kirk Strauser Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:57:36 +0100 (CET) Sender: sos@spider.deepcore.dk From: sos@deepcore.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99f (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.3 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 05:24:45 -0800 cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA still broken, but now differently X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:58:17 -0000 It seems Kirk Strauser wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > Well, Thursday's world seems to have broken ATA in a new and interesting > way. Before updating world in mid-September, my drive ran perfectly in > UDMA66 mode. Since that time, the system is absolutely guaranteed to freeze > if I run in any mode higher than BIOSPIO. Before two days ago, that meant > getting errors like: > > ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 reties left) > ata0: resetting devices > ad0: FAILURE - already active DMA on this device > ad0: setting up DMA failed > > before infinite, unbreakable hangs. As of today, when running in any DMA > mode and exercising the ATA system, I get an endless stream of messages: > > swap pager: indefinite wait buffer > > and I can only break out of the error cycle with a reset. > > For the record, I've checked the cabling multiple times. "smartctl" gives > good results. The machine runs perfectly under FreeBSD 4.9 or versions of > 5.x prior to mid-September. > > Any thoughts before I file (another) PR? Hmm, please try a stock GENERIC kernel from todays sources, and boot verbosely then get me the output of dmesg. I known of no issue with that chipset, so it might be something special about your setup that makes things fail. -Søren