Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 00:20:40 +0100 From: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Facing serious problems after hardware upgrade with FreeBSD 10.3 Message-ID: <6841e618-151b-4b9b-8d3f-d7f041aa82e0@multiplay.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB0974B98EDC7E63F472F8ABABF6D70@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB0974B98EDC7E63F472F8ABABF6D70@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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TBH sounds like you may have some bad / incompatible hardware. For the ata errors first thing I'd do is check cabling. Is the disk fine if you remove the scanner from the equation (disconnect it)? On 22/10/2016 19:08, Manish Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I am running FreeBSD 10.3 amd64. > > Over the last couple of months, I have made a major upgrade of my > computer - an upgrade which has knocked out virtually everything except > the CPU (AMD Athlon X2 270). > > In phase 1 (about 2 months ago), I moved the motherboard to a new > Gigabyte SB970 based board (paired with the the old Athlon CPU) and the > hard disk to a Samsung EVO 850 SSD > > In phase 2 (yesterday), I upgraded other components (new components > listed) : PSU (Corsair RM650x), RAM (Kingston HyperX, 8 GB, single > piece), DVD drive (Asus DRW-24D5MT), cabinet (Circle 821). > > The USB peripherals remain the same ; mouse, keyboard, printer, scanner. > > The USB scanner (Canon MG 2470 Pixma; multi-function device serving > purely as scanner) is the one that is of most interest. > > After phase 2 of the upgrade was over, I have been facing this situation > (since yesterday) : > > If I run 'scanimage -L' as root on the console at ttyv4 (no X), most of > the times it returns with a listing of the Canon scanner. At the same > time, on ttyv0, I also get the following diagnostics : > > ata0: FAILURE - odd-sized DMA transfer attempt 5 % 2 > ata0: setting up DMA failed > > Once in about 2-3 tries, the command actually gets totally stuck. Not > even Control-C wakes it up. In such cases, the system usually has to be > rebooted - sometimes forcibly by hard-pressing the switch on the cabinet. > > Further, at the time I boot, I sometimes also see the following > diagnostics on ttyv0 : > > (ada0:ata0:0:1:0): READ_DMA48. ACB: 25 00 df ea ff 40 33 00 00 00 01 00 > (ada0:ata0:0:1:0): CAM status: Command timeout > (ada0:ata0:0:1:0): Retrying command > > The last time I spotted the above error ("CAM status: Command timeout") > was in a single user shell running fsck after an unclean shutdown. No > other command except fsck and reboot was given to the system during that > session. > > I am trying to determine whether the errors I am facing are a problem > with the hardware; with the kernel; or with the USB code. The only other > thing notable I can add is the USB scanner works seamlessly under > Windows XP (which serves as my second OS on my dual-boot machine). > > If anybody can help me determine what is wrong with the system, I shall > be highly grateful - I feel practically paralysed after investing so > much time, money and energy upgrading the hardware, only to be feeling > as if now I am stuck in no man's land. > > > Thanks > Manish Jain > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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