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Date:      Tue, 23 May 2000 14:56:51 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Grigoriy Strokin <grg@philol.msu.ru>
Cc:        Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ad0 drivers revisited
Message-ID:  <392AFEA3.46FDBDAD@3-cities.com>
References:  <20000522182937.C9843@pir.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005221916240.350-100000@discover.siteplus.net> <20000523162722.A97474@isabase.philol.msu.ru>

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Grigoriy Strokin wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 07:26:50PM -0400, Jim Weeks wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 22 May 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> > >
> > > Define "it doesn't work" ?
> >
> > ad0: 4884MB <Maxtor 85120A8> [10585/15/63] at ata0-master using BIOSDMA
> > ata1-slave: simplex device, DMA on primary only
> > acd0: CDROM <FX400D> at ata1-slave using BIOSPIO
> > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> In my case, I see the message 'dma,dma -> pio,pio'
> at this point. Maybe try /sbin/sysctl instead
> of just sysctl?

Have you all done a "man sysctl.conf"

Kent

> 
> > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting
> > ata0: resetting devices .. done
> > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting
> > ata0: resetting devices .. done
> > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting
> > ata0: resetting devices .. done
> > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting
> > ata0-master: timeout waiting to give command=ef s=eb e=eb
> > ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode
> > ata0: resetting devices .. done
> >
> > >
> > > It doesn't switch to pio mode or doesn't stop timeouts ?
> >
> > There is no change in the timeouts with or without adding the line to
> > rc.  At least it does eventually fall back to PIO.  I understand from some
> > of the posts that not every case is so.
> >
> > > If there was a fix known, for it to be scheduled, it would probably
> > > already be in the tree.
> >
> > I was actually hoping that someone with a fix in the works would
> > respond ;-)
> >
> > I do appreciate your response though.  My late Father always said that two
> > heads were better than one, even if one is a punkin head.  Of course that
> > one would be mine ;_)
> >
> > Jim Weeks
> > -------- A mind is a terrible thing to lose!  How I miss mine..
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> --
> === Grigoriy Strokin, Lomonosov University (MGU), Moscow ===
> === contact info: http://isabase.philol.msu.ru/~grg/     ===
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