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Date:      Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:27:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com>
To:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        plaine@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Can't remove files.
Message-ID:  <20050226082749.69188.qmail@web54003.mail.yahoo.com>

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Perttu Laine wrote:
>ad5: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
> LBA=382096515
>ad5: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out

> So. What can be done here?

Typical 5.3 problem/bug.

Try adding following line to /boot/loader.conf:

 hw.ata.ata_dma="0"

and reboot.

This may force the harddisk to operate in slow PIO4
mode, but at least without DMA TIMEOUTs and DMA
FAILUREs.

Rob.



		
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