From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 7 9:46:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0A2437B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:46:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (oe22.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.18.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD5E43F75 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:46:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from b1henning@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:46:47 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [192.216.212.193] From: "Brian Henning" To: Subject: lockups Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:44:31 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Mar 2003 17:46:47.0120 (UTC) FILETIME=[863C6D00:01C2E4D1] Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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