From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 19:13:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wormhole.bluestar.net (wormhole.bluestar.net [208.53.1.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35EE337B401 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 19:13:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from planetwe.com (admin.planetwe.com [64.182.69.146]) by wormhole.bluestar.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eAT3D4Q11258; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:13:04 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3A247440.100@planetwe.com> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:13:04 -0600 From: Drew Sanford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386; en-GB; m18) Gecko/20001107 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sjohnson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA Timeouts on bootup References: <3A25BEE4.79F7D471@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The exact same thing happens on mine A7V. I'd say grin and bear it if you have to use the ATA100 controler. If the boot time is a problem for you, then try using the ATA66 controler instead. I have not found a way to stop these pauses and messages while using the ATA100 controler. sjohnson wrote: > Hey guys, > > I recently upgraded to FreeBSD 4.2-Release from 4.1.1-Release and > I realized that I now receive > the following timeout messages on boot (rather annoying cause it > increases boottime): > > ata2-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr > ata2-slave: identify failed > ata2-master: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr > ata2-master: identify failed > ata3-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr > ata3-slave: identify failed > ata3-master: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr > ata3-master: identify failed > > After getting these, I rebooted after doing some stuff (ie snes9x) and I > noticed it doens't give me those messages. > So, i concluded that it only does it every once and a while. Anyways, > I tried booting with my previous 4.1.1 kernel > and i still receive these timeout messages. > > Has anyone had a similar problem? > > PS I have an ATA100 Promise controller on my Asus A7V if it helps. > > Thanks! > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator Planetwe.com Email: drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message