Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:29:14 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: dbutter@wireless.net (Devin Butterfield) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact) Message-ID: <199912160729.IAA58142@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <38588452.3383809C@wireless.net> from Devin Butterfield at "Dec 15, 1999 10:18:58 pm"
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It seems Devin Butterfield wrote: > Hi, > > I just recently compiled a kernel with the new ATA driver and have > discovered a problem: if I run sysinstall, right when it says "probing > devices, please wait (this can be a while)" error messages saying... [snip] > and after printing these messages a number of times, sysinstall will > finally come up. If I quit sysinstall and then run it again, probing > goes well and there are no timeouts. The interesting thing is that I can > reproduce this problem by rebooting and running sysinstall. So, this > only happens when running sysinstall for the first time after a boot. > :-/ > > I've read through all the previous messages regarding these timeout > problems and have even increased the timeout in ata-disk.c to 10 secs > but no luck. Hmm, I'd put my disks on different channels, but thats just for performance sake. I'm currently trying every wierd setup I can imagine with the HW I have for testing, but I havn't been able to get any of my test setups to exhibit this behavior... But I'm working on it... -Soren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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