Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:39:51 -0600
From:      "Brian Henning" <b1henning@hotmail.com>
To:        <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   lockups in bsd
Message-ID:  <OE23WvqzAoa2JB1ndcx000023f3@hotmail.com>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hello-
I posted this on freebsd-questions and mybe i shouldn't have.

I am get lockup on my bsd machine. I took out a working bsd bootable HD
and put it in my new AMD XP 2100+ machine. It booted fine the first time
but after a while i got the following errors. Someone told me that I could have
bad ram or maybe my heat sink isn't sitting on the processor properly.

Errors
------
ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 : resetting
ata0: resetting devices .. ata0-slave:
ATA identify retries exceeded


Hardware:
---------
ASUS A7N8X, supports up to : ATA 133
AMD XP 2100+

WD300BB Hard drive, ad0
note: primary master, only drive on the chain, 30 gig drive, 7200 rpm


synopsis after reading the mailing list archives:
-------------------------------------------------
I may have DMA enabled on the drive when the drive does not support it.
is this a bios setting that i need to make or do i need the following change?

/boot/loader.conf
-----------------
hw.ata.ata_dma=0

I may have a 40 conductor ribbon cable instead of an 80 pin cable.
can this really cause this kind of problem or will the drive just run slower.

is there anything else that i can do to avoid these errors?

thanks,
brian

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?OE23WvqzAoa2JB1ndcx000023f3>