From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 27 20:11:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7BFC37B403 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:10:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from mark2 (host217-35-35-6.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.35.35.6]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA25071; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 04:10:34 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <020701c12f6e$f41fd740$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: , References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010827212658.01e1b520@192.168.99.2> Subject: Re: ATA Problems with >4.1R #0 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 04:09:41 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've spent the past few hours digging through the archives looking for a > solution to this problem, and all the references I found seemed to center > on an early bug in the UDMA code that by all accounts sounds like it was fixed. > > I've got a system using the dreaded VIA chipset and a Seagate > drive. What's maddening is that the system works fine, no problems on > 4.1-RELEASE #0, and fails horrendously on anything after that (up to 4.4 > RC1). The problem is continuous READ and WRITE timeouts that result in the > bus being reset and, during installation disk errors. It's a FIC KA-6130 > MicroATX board, with a Trident VGA adapter and 2 Netgear FA310TX NIC's, a > PIII-450 and 64M RAM. > > ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. done > > I'd appreciate any help/suggestions anyone might have... I think you've narrowed it down where you say the bug sounds like it has been fixed. I had similar problems with 4.1-release and a VIA chipset, upgraded to 4.3-release and had no problems whatsoever. Hope this helps, Mark -- Mark Hughes - DVD & Film Content Manager, Technical Officer Digital Spy Ltd http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ Your number one source for digital media and entertainment news! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message