From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Dec 31 14:42:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64F4637B401 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:42:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.sentex.ca (smtp2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F77C43E4A for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:42:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from house (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp2.sentex.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gBVMgeAJ069965; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:42:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: Bruce Campbell Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ata "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:42:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 15:57:16 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: > >I am seeing a problem with ata disks on 4 new systems, which >I believe is either a bug in the ata driver, or a problem with >the onboard IDE controller, or something else. Systems are as follows: What does dmesg show for the ATA controller ? Also, what does atacontrol cap 0 0 atacontrol cap 0 1 atacontrol cap 1 0 atacontrol cap 1 1 show ? Do you have tags enabled ? My first guess is poor power supply or bad drives.... But if it goes 15hrs my guess bad sector on the disk. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net)=09 http://www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message