From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 12:25:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 569CC16A4D0; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:25:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D10F43D48; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:25:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.strauser.com (pooh.honeypot.net [10.0.5.128]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i06KP534003072; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:25:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) To: Robert Watson References: From: Kirk Strauser Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:25:02 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Robert Watson's message of "Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:46:31 -0500 (EST)") Message-ID: <873cassu3l.fsf@strauser.com> Lines: 30 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA + DMA still giving repeatable freezes X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 20:25:09 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2004-01-06T19:46:31Z, Robert Watson writes: > Not sure if you misread, but it looks like you're disabling ACPI rather > than apic (confusing, eh? :-). Heh! Well, I'd seen suggestions for disabling both. At any rate, my old kernel (with "device apic" commented but DMA enabled) was failing during lo= ad, and my new one (with "device apic" enabled and DMA disabled) has been chugging along for two weeks with only the occasional: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_MUL retrying (2 retries left) ata0: resetting devices .. done > I'm currently in a situation on my Dell Notebook where leaving the new > ACPI enable but "device apic" disabled seems to get me to full > functionality. I discovered a BIOS upgrade on the Dell web site, and need > to try installing that to see if it helps. I also haven't tried plugging > and playing DRI as yet. Thanks for the pointer, but I'm using the most recent BIOS. I've checked all of my BIOS settings (which are few on my motherboard) but there's nothing for me to "back off". Sigh. I've just about reached the point of declaring this motherboard/drive combo to be incompatible with FreeBSD 5.x, which is a pity since it's otherwise been a great server for several years. :-/ =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/+xmh5sRg+Y0CpvERApHtAKCTYlcFyVMCFpQRqxy4jQuGBdj1mACfR/SL fIkZmOgndOcuA0Tw+k4sQ0A= =ChlN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--