Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:19:17 -0800 From: Sebastian <list@mindling.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Getting around WRITE_DMA errors Message-ID: <43C9B125.5040509@mindling.com> In-Reply-To: <43C96C73.9010904@mindling.com> References: <43C96C73.9010904@mindling.com>
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Sebastian wrote:
> Hi,
> Installing 6.0-RELEASE on a new machine. (Have tried 5.4 too). Using a
> PCChips M848ALU motherboard with onboard SiS
> IDE controller, and a Hitachi 160gb disk.
>
> When my disk is in UDMA6 (133) mode, FreeBSD dies painfully with many
> errors like:
>
> ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request)
> LBA=316139999
> ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request)
> LBA=316139999
> ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51(READY,DSC,ERROR)
> error=4(ABORTED) LBA=316139999
>
> It then panics and dumps:
>
> panic: initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2: already started
>
> If I disable dma using "set hw.ata.ata_dma=0" at boot, or simply boot
> in safe mode, it goes into PI04 mode and works fine. Also, if I change
> to a lesser UDMA value using atacontrol after boot, such as:
>
> # atacontrol mode ad0 UDMA4
>
> ... it also seems to behave just fine. I've tried UDMA3, UDMA4, UDMA5,
> all seemingly without errors. But when I use UDMA6, the machine
> immediately dies when the disk gets written to.
>
> So my question:
>
> What's the best way to tell FreeBSD to always use UDMA5 mode on that
> disk at boot time (before it attempts to use the drive)?
So far the best I've come up with is adding to /etc/sysctl.conf:
hw.ata.ata_dma=0
And to /etc/rc.d/early.sh:
atacontrol mode ad0 UDMA5
Does this seem reasonable? It feels like there should be a better way.
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