Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:14:01 -0400 From: Webbie <webbie@ipfw.org> To: Jeremy Glick <jglick@tincan.ms.unimelb.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ad0 WRITE timeout during 4.1 install Message-ID: <2046752366.20000912171401@ipfw.org>
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Try using a ATA-33 cable.
A lot of peoples having similar problem using ATA66 with the ad device
(including myself).
This is only a workaround.
> I have been trying for days to install 4.1-release off a CD and floppies
> and keep bumping into the same problem. While running newfs
> I keep getting ad0 WRITE timout error message. I'm writing to a ATA-66 HD
> with an ATA-66 cable). I tried disabling DMA and setting PIO4 but this
> made no difference. Interestingly, the number or WRITE timeouts before a
> successful write seemed to increase with each installation attempt (first
> 1 timeout, then 1 successful write, the next time 2:1, now about 10:1).
> If I wait until the newfs command has finished (about 3 hours) the
> installation continues as normal, then the system reboots randomly before
> the installation is complete. I am totally at a loss (I've noticed similar
> problems being discussed in various mailing lists, but most seem to be
> fixed by disabling DMA, and 4.1 was supposed to address these issues
> anyway).
>
> The HD is an 8.4GB Seagate ATA-66 HD.
>
> Thanks in advance, any suggestions would be most appreciated
> Jeremy
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