From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 23:29:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84EC0153B0 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:29:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA58142; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:29:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199912160729.IAA58142@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact) In-Reply-To: <38588452.3383809C@wireless.net> from Devin Butterfield at "Dec 15, 1999 10:18:58 pm" To: dbutter@wireless.net (Devin Butterfield) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:29:14 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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