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Date:      Tue, 1 May 2007 03:01:57 -0300
From:      "Alejandro Pulver" <alepulver@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "FreeBSD gnats submit" <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   kern/112282: atacontrol(8): changing DMA modes when disk is reading/writing crashes
Message-ID:  <1177999317.1472@deimos.mars.bsd>
Resent-Message-ID: <200705010610.l416A6T0079144@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         112282
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       atacontrol(8): changing DMA modes when disk is reading/writing crashes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 01 06:10:06 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Alejandro Pulver
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:


System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007
    root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP



>Description:


I have a FreeBSD machine which changes ATA modes correctly when the disk is idle, but when it is reading/writing (moderate/high load) the system freezes after the command returns, and the disk light keeps on.

The specifications of my machine are available here (the files containing "_1"; well, it has FreeBSD 6.2 now, not 6.1):

http://people.freebsd.org/~alepulver/disk-crash.tar.bz2

If you need more information just ask me.


>How-To-Repeat:


For example (by default is in UDMA133):
# atacontrol mode ad2 UDMA100
# atacontrol mode ad2 UDMA133

I could not reproduce the problem in my other machine which has a SATA disk and seems locked to the SATA300 mode (although one attempt to change it froze the system, keeping the disk light off; instead of rejecting the mode). This machine's specifications are in the files containing "_2" (see above).


>Fix:


None that I know.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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