From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 4 00:23:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA23985 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 00:23:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA23975 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 00:22:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA00337; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 08:22:45 GMT (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <34FD0F55.F9341D71@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 08:22:45 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ye' olde IDE drive problems... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > > [...] > > > > And run a "newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 > > I'd like to see the rest of this line. The rest? - should there be any rest? - That's the line that /stand/sysinstall issues to format the partition! ;-) > > > It starts to format the drive, and then I get: > > > > "wd0: interrupt timeout > > wd0: status 58 > > wd0: interrupt timeout > > wd0: status 58 error 1 " > > You need to enable your ide controller; it's not responding to interrupts. The IDE controller is definitely enabled, in the bios it says: Peripherals | Onboard IDE Controller: Both (other values are: Primary, Secondary or Disabled) DOS works fine with the drive... And while I know their IO routines aren't exactly punishing - they must surely use IRQ's? - Even Windows'95 is quite happy using it's Bus mastering drivers etc... There must also be IRQs flying around during the probe phase as the kernel comes up and ID's the drive? If I look at a systat -vmstat while the drive is formatting I can see (under interrupts): wdc0 irq14 Listed... When I first start formatting the drive - the number of interrupts goes up to around 100 or so (it's hard to see) - but after the 'timeouts' it sticks at '1'. (How do I know your going to suggest a conflict? ;-) Does the IDE driver just giveup after a timeout or something? - the machine gets rapidly unstable after that... Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message