From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 14 14: 4: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from radiac.mine.nu (h186n2fls20o974.telia.com [212.181.170.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C5937B6B2; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:03:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ps@radiac.mine.nu) Received: (from ps@localhost) by radiac.mine.nu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA15279; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:03:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ps) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:03:55 +0100 From: Patrik Sundberg To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Will Saxon , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA timeout errors Message-ID: <20000314230355.A15127@radiac.mine.nu> References: <20000314191403.A13766@radiac.mine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:33:55PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:33:55PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Patrik Sundberg wrote: >=20 > > I also get this when booting - think it started happening when I started > > using the new ata-driver. For me it happens when the root is supposed t= o be > > mounted (from dmesg): >=20 > > As you can see I am using a seagate disk and I am having the same probl= em. >=20 > I've always had this problem with the new ata drivers (on a Western > Digital, though). Looks like it's just something we have to Deal With :-( > Plus, my CDROM doesn't do audio any more. Tested my CDROM for audio just now - works fine (at least pressing the buttons on the unit, have no softwareplayer to test with so it might not work anyway - my cd is total crap and usually has all kinds of problems..) However, it seems this affects many people using different hardware. The conclusion must be that the ATA drivers needs fixing - not being able to use DMA-mode for disks etc just isn't acceptable, especially considering it worked ok with the wd driver - or did that driver not even try the "better" modes, just falling back to PIO default? I am not familiar with it so I don't know. If it in fact worked before, the ata-guys(S=F6ren, right?) shouldn't have too hard a time getting it to function properly again. S=F6ren, comments? --=20 Patrik Sundberg - email: ps@raditex.se || ps@radiac.mine.nu ---> telefon: 013-178 567 - mobiltelefon: 070-760 22 40 <--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message