Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:47:19 +0200 From: Mike Daemon <mike.daemon@gmail.com> To: Thomas Foster <tbonius@comcast.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: more problems with 5.3 and "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" Message-ID: <3db6da6d05032713476ac966d4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <006701c53314$834b7490$4300a8c0@home.lan> References: <3db6da6d05032713157dac8a14@mail.gmail.com> <006701c53314$834b7490$4300a8c0@home.lan>
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On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:32:43 -0800, Thomas Foster <tbonius@comcast.net> wrote: > I had this same issue I´ll have seen some more posts on the list with about the same problem therefore, I hope some bright one will take alook at the code.. and post something smart.. I´m very much stuck, hopeing any new snapshot will work.. 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? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE I´ll notised that my idecontroller IS supported by the ata-driver, witch makes it even stranger.. (I think I will check on my cabling once more, even if it´s a newly installed _rounded_ 32 pin cable..) My atacontroller: SiS 5513 My HDD: Seagate 200 GB > > T > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Daemon" <mike.daemon@gmail.com> > To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > 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 it´s 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 don´t see this problem with > those oses I´m very confused of what to do next.. > > I´ll 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" > > > >
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