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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2000 06:45:10 -0700
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
Cc:        Grigoriy Strokin <grg@philol.msu.ru>, Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ad0 drivers revisited 
Message-ID:  <200005241345.e4ODjqG21909@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 May 2000 14:56:51 PDT." <392AFEA3.46FDBDAD@3-cities.com> 

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In message <392AFEA3.46FDBDAD@3-cities.com>, Kent Stewart writes:
> 
> 
> 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"


Actually, have you?  Read it and see why it will probably not help here.


> 
> 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 som
> e
> > > 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 tw
> o
> > > 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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> Kent Stewart
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Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
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