Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:23:32 -0600 From: "Brian Henning" <b1henning@hotmail.com> To: "freebsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: ad0 lockups Message-ID: <OE65wSA1XvpFVjCRGry0002333a@hotmail.com>
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Hello- I am get lockup on my bsd machine. I took out a working bsd bootable HD and put it in my new AMD XP 2100+ machine. It booted fine the first time but after a while i got the following errors. Errors ------ ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 : resetting ata0: resetting devices .. ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded Hardware: --------- ASUS A7N8X, supports up to : ATA 133 AMD XP 2100+ WD300BB Hard drive, ad0 note: primary master, only drive on the chain, 30 gig drive, 7200 rpm synopsis after reading the mailing list archives: ------------------------------------------------- I may have DMA enabled on the drive when the drive does not support it. is this a bios setting that i need to make or do i need the following change? /boot/loader.conf ----------------- hw.ata.ata_dma=0 I may have a 40 conductor ribbon cable instead of an 80 pin cable. is the conductor value printed on the ide cable? is there anything else that i can do to avoid these errors? thanks, brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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