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Date:      Wed, 5 Oct 2005 10:18:41 +0200
From:      Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
To:        Andrzej Tobola <ato@iem.pw.edu.pl>, Pertti Kosunen <pertti.kosunen@pp.nic.fi>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Subject:   Re: ATA/DMA problem after reboot
Message-ID:  <20051005081840.GK43195@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050929170359.GA31360@amper.iem.pw.edu.pl>
References:  <20050928190336.GA1027@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200509281527.33584.mistry.7@osu.edu> <20050928202406.GD1027@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20050928222849.GA1086@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20050929170359.GA31360@amper.iem.pw.edu.pl>

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Hi Andrzej, Pertti,

> > I tried to disable APIC, S.M.A.R.T, IDE DMA Burst, IDE Block Mode.
> > I don't know what the last one does, but anyway, nothing corrected
> > my problem.
> > 
> > Other suggestions are welcome.
> 
> In my case switching from UDMA33 to WDMA solves the problem,
> but almost halves disk bandwidth (from 28M/s to 18M/s)
> (via # atacontrol mode ad0)
> 
> It seems that there is som nasty timing bug in ATA or system
> so only big bulk transfer are affected

How do I set this at boot time ?  There may be a tunable or something
allowing to do this.  My problem indeed occurs before / is even
mounted.

Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >



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