From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 1 20: 8:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F5D815182 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 20:08:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA27464; Sun, 2 May 1999 12:38:32 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA02222; Sun, 2 May 1999 12:38:31 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 12:38:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Glenn Johnson Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE DMA timeouts (was: Kernel won't boot from IDE disk) Message-ID: <19990502123831.Y80561@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990429101043.A7734@symbion.srrc.usda.gov> <19990430140500.E80561@freebie.lemis.com> <19990430104939.A89475@symbion.srrc.usda.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990430104939.A89475@symbion.srrc.usda.gov>; from Glenn Johnson on Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 10:49:39AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 30 April 1999 at 10:49:39 -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 02:05:00PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 29 April 1999 at 10:10:43 -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: >>> I am doing a fresh installation. I installed the April 23, 1999 snapshot >>> of STABLE and then cvsupped the CURRENT source (4.0 CURRENT). >>> ... >>> Upon reboot, the system would hang after doing all of the probes. Below is some >>> of the output that I got from a boot -v. I wrote this down on paper, so the >>> formatting may be a little off. >>> >>> isa_compat: didn't get drq for wdc1 >>> ... >>> changing root device to wd0s1a >>> >>> At this point it hangs. But if I press a key on the keyboard I then get: >>> wd0s1: type 0xa5, start 0, end = 3173183, size 3173184 >>> wd0s1: C/H/S end 197/132/63 (1659041) != end 3173183: invalid >>> start_init: trying /sbin/init >>> wd0: interrupt timeout (status 50 error 0) >>> wd0: wdtimeout() DMA status 4 >>> >>> This last two lines above are repeated 5x, then I get: >>> >>> wd0: Last time I say: interrupt timeout. Probably a portable PC. >>> >>> It is a desktop PC. I am not at the system now, so the following is from >>> memory. It is an AMI BIOS, a Western Digital 1.6 GB IDE drive on the >>> primary IDE and a Mitsumi 4x CD-ROM drive on the secondary IDE. >> >> What's your chipset? If it's an SiS 5591, I'd be interested in seeing >> your complete dmesg output (preferably with a -v output). You'll also >> be able to get it to work by changing the wdc0 flags to eliminate DMA. > > The IDE controller chip is an Intel PIIX3 Bus Master IDE controller. I > did turn off all flags, via boot -c, then deleting the flags. That did > not help. Ah, OK. Not the problem I was afraid of. Sorry, I can't help on this one. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message