From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 14:14: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ipfw.org (cr308584-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com [24.114.52.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B9CF37B422 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:14:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo (apollo.objtech.com [192.168.111.5]) by mail.ipfw.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140163128; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:14:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:14:01 -0400 From: Webbie X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.45) Business Reply-To: Webbie X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <2046752366.20000912171401@ipfw.org> To: Jeremy Glick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ad0 WRITE timeout during 4.1 install Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Webbie \\|// (o o) +-------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo-----------------------------+ EMail : mailto:webbie(at)ipfw(dot)org PGP Key : http://www.ipfw.org/pgpkey.txt PGP Fingerprint: 0B9F E081 35CD B9AF 58EA 7E43 38EC C84F 4AB4 792C +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Network failure - call NBC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message