From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 4 6:22:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BC437C297 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 06:22:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA87696; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:22:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200004041322.PAA87696@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: ata sad combinatorics In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000404083342.0340b948@mail.sentex.net> from Mike Tancsa at "Apr 4, 2000 08:38:26 am" To: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:22:11 +0200 (CEST) Cc: svysh@pn.sinp.msu.ru (Sergei Vyshenski), freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Have a search through the archives as I think someone else had problems > with the Fujitsus. What if you disable DMA. Are you actually using the > drive in Win98 with DMA drivers ? What if go back to PIO mode. Perhaps the > maintainer can shed light on it ? > >atapci0: >ATA controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1 on pci0 > >ata0: at 0x1f0 irq > >14 on atapci0 > >ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 The old Intel PIIX is know to have DMA problems, I never intended to support it, but the current code (from luiqi IIRC) was found to be sufficient IF the BIOS did its job right. I seems that we have a BIOS here that doesn't setup things the way they should be, and the DMA setup fails because of that. Is there any way you could upgrade your BIOS ?? -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message