Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 13:31:25 -0400 From: Mike Jeays <mike.jeays@rogers.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disappointed with version 6.0 Message-ID: <200905181331.25829.mike.jeays@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <000501c9d7d9$89fd8c60$9df8a520$@net> References: <000501c9d7d9$89fd8c60$9df8a520$@net>
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-- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca On May 18, 2009 12:56:07 pm David Roberts wrote: > Hi, I was reading this thread as the problem I'm having seems quite > similar, and with version 7.2, although I had the same behavior with 6.3 as > well. > > > > The only variation on the dialog below is I do not have any CDROM or other > device attached. My configuration is: > > primary IDE: 10GB Seagate > > seconardy IDE: 80GB Maxtor > > > > My dmesg is giving me > > ad0: 9541MB <Seagate ST310212A 3.39> at ata0-master UDMA66 > > ad2: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable > > ad2: 76345MB <MAXTOR 6L080L4 A93.0500> at ata1-master UDMA33ad0: 9541MB > <Seagate ST310212A 3.39> at ata0-master UDMA66 > > ad2: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable > > ad2: 76345MB <MAXTOR 6L080L4 A93.0500> at ata1-master UDMA33 > > > > Any ideas? > > On Friday 10 March 2006 22:57, Peter wrote: > > I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long time > > > > and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My motherboard > > > > is the ASUS K8V-X SE that I chose because it was listed as compatible > > > > at the FreeBSD/amd64 Project: > > > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html > > > > > > > > I wonder if going back to 5.4 might help? > > > > > > > > Onto the problems... > > > > > > > > 1. I have 4 IDE drives: > > > > > > > > primary controller: Maxtor 40 GB hd (master) and LG cdrom (slave) > > > > secondary controller: Seagate Barracuda 200 GB hd (master) and > > > > Seagate Barracuda 300 GB (slave) > > > > > > > > Problem: The 300 GB drive is unusable. > > > > > > > > I set it up ok with sysinstall during the installation but the system > > > > will not boot properly if it has an entry in /etc/fstab. I get many > > > > errors like: > > > > > > > > "ad3: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63" > > > > > > > > I also get input/output error if I try to examine its label with > > > > disklabel. > > > > > > > > dmesg output is at the end of this post when I booted without fstab > > > > line. > > > > > > > > The strange thing is that the two drives on the secondary controller > > > > are so similar. Same manufacturer, same product line, the speeds are > > > > the same. Everything is the same except the size. I ran dos-level > > > > diagnostics on it and no problems were found. > > > > > > > > 2. I can't use my USB ports! > > > > > > > > I get a line like this for each of my ports: > > > > > > > > uhci0: port 0xb800-0xb81f irq 21 at > > > > device 16.0 on pci0 > > > > uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. > > > > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, > > > > 1994 > > > > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > > > > FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 > > > > root@x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > > > ACPI APIC Table: > > > > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > > > > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (2002.58-MHz 686-class CPU) > > > > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0xf4a Stepping = 10 > > > > Features=0x78bfbffGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2> AMD > > > > Features=0xe0500800 > > > > real memory = 536543232 (511 MB) > > > > avail memory = 515702784 (491 MB) > > < snip > > > > ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable > > > > ad0: 39205MB at ata0-master UDMA33 > > > > acd0: CDROM at ata0-slave PIO4 > > > > ad2: 190782MB at ata1-master UDMA100 > > > > ad3: 286168MB at ata1-slave UDMA100 > > > > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > You've got a problem alright, and you don't even see it. > > > > ========================== > > The ata driver sets the maximum transfer mode supported by the hardware > > as default. However the ata driver sometimes warns: ``DMA limited to > > UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device''. This means that the ata driver > > has detected that the required 80 conductor cable is not present or > > could not be detected properly, or that one of the devices on the > > channel only accepts up to UDMA2/ATA33. > > ========================== > > > > You've got your 40GB Maxtor (you've installed FreeBSD on it), an ATA100 > > device, connected with your CDROM, an ATA33 device. The result is: your > > boot drive is running at UDMA33 instead of UDMA100. This is not going > > to work real well, as you can see. > > > > Do you really need that 40GB Maxtor? If you do, you're going to have to > > try adding an ATA controller card into one of your PCI slots and use > > that to connect your hard drives to. > > > > Try removing the 40GB Maxtor and reinstalling FreeBSD on the other two > > drives. I think that will clear up some problems for you. > > > > Don > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Do you have the 80-wire IDE cable? The older 40-wire cables do not permit speeds faster than DMA-33.
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