Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:37:15 +0100 From: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quality of FreeBSD Message-ID: <70e8236f05072515374231dc0d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050725205651.GA75156@auricle.charter.net> References: <dc30v2$3pg$1@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <20050725205651.GA75156@auricle.charter.net>
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On 7/25/05, J. Porter Clark <jpc@suespammers.org> wrote: > >The VIA SATA onboard controller on my server works (and has worked) > >flawlessly. I have two identical 80G Maxtor SATA drives connected to it > >and have had absolutely no problems and excellent performance. Even my > >Dell Inspirion 5100--with a few hiccups--has made great progress and is > >mostly functional. >=20 > The ATA (definitely not SATA) controller on my Dell Latitude > C840 laptop has READ_DMA, WRITE_DMA problems, maybe 2-3 times > a day unless I turn off DMA. It hangs for 3-4 seconds, logs > errors, then proceeds. It isn't heavily loaded. I tried using > Soren's ATA mkIII patches, and now it likes to panic about that > same frequency instead of hanging, so I'm going back to the > stock RELENG_5 config next chance I get. >=20 > It's one of these: >=20 > atapci0: <Intel ICH3 UDMA100 controller> port 0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x170= -0x177,0x 3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0 >=20 Your going back to stock RELENG_5 from what? I have that very same laptop running FreeBSD from 5.0 up to 5.4 with absolutely no DMA problems using it. Note: I did exchange the HDD from 20 to 60GB, different brands. -- Joao Barros
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