Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:19:03 +0100 (CET) From: Theo van Klaveren <havoc@phoenix.student.utwente.nl> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: Theo van Klaveren <havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA driver timeout Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001081414400.243-100000@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <200001081305.OAA44258@freebsd.dk>
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On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: > > > > I'm in doubt as to the first drive though: The BIOS says it's 'Mode 4', > > is that the same as WDMA2? Could the harddisk be reporting the wrong > > value, even though the BIOS is giving the correct one? I'm just grasping > > at straws here. > > Mode 4 is PIO4 that is no DMA, it could very well be the problem, > WD has made a lot of problematic drives in this area. > You could try to comment out the dmainit call in ata-disk.c and > see if that helps you. That helps me, but if I'm not mistaken it also disabled UDMA33 on the second drive. Ah well.. at least I can boot an ATA kernel now. > And yes, I'm working on a way to set this from useland... That'd be really nice, though if the kernel doesn't even boot to single user mode, I don't see how this would help users with this problem, as you'd have to do it before reboot. Thanks for the swift reply, /^\ | Theo van Klaveren <havoc@phoenix.student.utwente.nl> /^\\_//^\ | http://phoenix.student.utwente.nl ICQ #1353681 \_/-|-\_/ | / | This email was powered by FreeBSD `He's the mad scientist, and I'm his beautiful daughter.' - opening sentence from Heinlein's 'The number of the beast' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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