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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:50:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_4 crash: UDMA100 drive on with old UDMA33 controller
Message-ID:  <20040112144855.S54897@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20040112082548.0423eff0@127.0.0.1>
References:  <6.0.0.22.0.20040112082548.0423eff0@127.0.0.1>

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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> I am having problems with RELENG_4 (cvsup last night) crashing.  I
> recently purchased a WDC WD1600JB (160GB) disk drive to attach to my
> trusty, old home server:

Try running this in loader(8) before booting the kernel:

set hw.ata.ata_dma=0

This disables DMA support. If your system runs OK with this set then you
might want to check your cabling, or try isolating your disks to their own
channels.

>  ASUS P5A-B Motherboard with integrated Acer UDMA33 controller
>  Fujitsu MPC3032AT/6018 (3GB) disk drive (channel 0 master)
>  FX322M/w03 CDROM drive (channel 0 slave)

> I presently have the WD1600JB was added as the channel 1 master
> (no slave).  It is connected to the controller using the 80
> conductor/40-pin cable provided with the drive.  (I've also
> tried to setups with the WD1600JB replacing the CDROM drive
> as slave on channel 0, using both 80/40 and 40/40 cable with
> like results.)  I have configured the BIOS (as directed in
> the WDC documents) for C/H/S for 1023/16/63 (528M).

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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