From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 19:49:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE2237B400; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:49:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17114; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:19:15 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010116005820.A797@freebsd2.rocks> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:19:14 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Herbert Subject: RE: Epox 8KTA2 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am CC'ing Soren (Mr ATA) to see if he has any input. On 15-Jan-01 Herbert wrote: > The drives fall back from UDMA66 into PIO4 mode and the system is very > unstable. XWindow, netscape and other apps crash randomly and when I try > to compile the system or a kernel my kernel panics. :( > I testet this system under m$ win me I have no such problems? When it boots I get -> lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 ad0: 29188MB [59303/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode ata0: resetting devices .. done And sysctl hw.atamodes shows the drive is in PIO mode (bleh). The drive is a 30Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm DMA66 drive.. The ATA controller is reported as -> atapci0: port 0xa000-0xa00f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 It seems to be running fine.. I am compiling a kernel and some software with no hassles yet. I have tweaked the BIOS a little based on my experience with the 8KTA+... Integrated Peripherals -> Init Display First -> AGP -> Onboard Serial port 1 -> 3F8/IRQ4 -> Onboard Serial port 2 -> 2F8/IRQ3 -> Onboard Parallel Mode -> EPP -> Onboard Legacy Audio -> Dsiabled Power Mgmt. Setup -> State After Power Failure -> On PCI/PnP Config -> PNP OS Installed -> No -> Resources Controlled by -> Manual -> IRQ Resources -> 3,4,7 Legacy --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message