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Date:      01 Nov 2000 15:08:45 -0500
From:      Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode; HARD READ ERROR blk#25418687
Message-ID:  <87wven1mlu.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A006927.D10FC9E0@telecom.ksu.edu>
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.10.10011011352230.16836-100000@breakout.gpcc.itd.umich.edu> <3A006927.D10FC9E0@telecom.ksu.edu>

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nathan <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu> writes:

> i assume you "upgraded" fbsd recently?
Not really.  The box has been running 4.0 ever since it came out.  3.X
before that.

> make sure DMA is NOT enabled in the kernel ...  that MIGHT be whats
> happening, your kernel is tryin to use DMA through a non-dma channel
> (your p166 onboard ctrl)

How can I find out if my mobo's IDE controller supports DMA?  It
appears that the second disk has been running in DMA mode for months,
and no problem...

> i don't know what brand of mobo you have, but, being an ex-hardware guy, i've
> RARELY seen onboard IDE controllers go bad.. even on OLD hardware...

It's a Gygabit <sp?> with an HX chipset.

Here are relevant boot-up messages:

pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
isab0: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 ATA controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
ata1-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable
ad2: 13042MB <IBM-DPTA-371360> [26500/16/63] at ata1-master WDMA2
ad3: 18366MB <QUANTUM BIGFOOT TS19.2A> [37317/16/63] at ata1-slave WDMA2
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a

It's the IBM drive that's giving me grief.  That cable message, is it
of any importance?  I don't think the controller can do ATA-66
anyways, so I figured that DMA33 would do.

Any further thoughts?

> > > I just replaced a hard drive in one computer, because the previous one
> > > died last night.  (It was a 3.5 years old WD, so I thought that it had
> > > to happen).  Well, I was getting these errors with the previous
> > > harddrive.  Now I completely reinstalled the system, and I'm getting
> > > same error messages with the new one.
> > >
> > > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 25418671
> > > ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode
> > > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 25418687 status=59 error=40
> > > ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode
> > > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 25418687 status=59 error=40
> > > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 25418687 status=59 error=40

Many thanks,
-- 
Arcady Genkin
Don't read everything you believe.


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