From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 27 21:31:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED2F16A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:31:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2935F43D1D for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:31:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tbonius@comcast.net) Received: from ostros (c-24-18-102-54.client.comcast.net[24.18.102.54]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with SMTP id <2005032721314201100lk8hme>; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:31:42 +0000 Message-ID: <006701c53314$834b7490$4300a8c0@home.lan> From: "Thomas Foster" To: "Mike Daemon" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <3db6da6d05032713157dac8a14@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:32:43 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: Re: more problems with 5.3 and "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:31:43 -0000 I had this same issue on an older AMD Nforce board. 5.2.1 seemed to install and run.. but moving to 5.3 gave me issues. I tinkered with the DMA settings in the BIOS.. to no avail. The Geometry seemed to be off on the drive I noticed (IBM deskstar) when I newfs'd it.. so I changed out drives.. but never got it working.. I eventually just dropped Gentoo on it. What chipset, drive controller hard drive are you using on this system? T ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Daemon" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 1:15 PM Subject: more problems with 5.3 and "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" I got this annoying problem when upgradeing to 5.3, the miniinst iso blurps out "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" when it starts writing base to my disk. And when I tried to first install 5.2.1 and upgrade (cvsup, make buildworld etc.. ) to 5.3 that way everything seems fine until I reboot to single-user-mode, as soon as Im starting to write anything to the disk itīs blurping out those errors.. I have diagnosticed my disk, checked my cabling and fixed my PSU (installed a brand new one). No difference. I noticed that my ide-controller was supported in 4.11, but not? in 5.3, is that realy true? seems very strange... Sence I duel boot with Wintendo/Lunix and donīt see this problem with those oses Iīm very confused of what to do next.. Iīll tried some snapshots to but no luck... / Mike ps My dmesg goes in the attachment, in hope for a patch/solution to this problem. ds -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >