Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:22:41 +0100 From: DanGer <danger@wilbury.sk> To: craig <craig@small-pla.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10) Message-ID: <998086773.20041129172241@wilbury.sk> In-Reply-To: <000a01c4d5f8$784af300$6500a8c0@jupiter> References: <41A729E1.1060505@circlesquared.com> <000a01c4d5f8$784af300$6500a8c0@jupiter>
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Hi craig, Monday, November 29, 2004, 10:47:11 AM, you thoughtfully wrote the following: >>DanGer wrote: >>[...] >>> >>> >>> i have the same issue on brand new 200gb ata maxtor hard drive. i had >>> the same issue on 5.2.1, but when i upgraded to 5.3 i decided to turn on >>> ata dma but after 9 days of uptime it froze..no logs, whatever...so i >>> turned ata dma off for now, and i will stay and watch what will happen.. >> >>That's very helpful, thank you. The behaviour you describe - machine >>freezing - is exactly what I have experienced. I'm feeling vaguely >>optimistic now :-) >> >>> >>> but there should be some other fix, because i don't want to keep my >>> disc in pio mode :/ >> >>Absolutely. But I guess, since I'm not going to try to produce a fix >>myself, I can't whinge too loudly. A workaround is what I need right now >>and I hope you've confirmed that this is one. >> >>Peter. > have you had any luck yet? there wasn't reboot since last, when i turned dma off and i have no strange messeges in logs..but i have to remind you, that the box froze after 9 days of uptime, when i had dma turned on, so... > i've disabled DMA at a bios level, but it seems to make no discernable > difference. > and the installation still fails... try to turn it off in system before boot in loader prompt (not sure if this is possible:)) > have the IDE drivers changed between 4.10 and 5.3? i think so, but there are people who understands this more than me ;-) > much thanks, -- Best Regards, +----------==/\/\==----------+ (__) FreeBSD | DanGer <danger@wilbury.sk> | \\\'',) The | DanGer@IRCnet ICQ261701668 | \/ \ ^ Power | http://danger.homeunix.org | .\._/_) To +----------==\/\/==----------+ Serve [ (singing): Spam, spam, it comes in a can...And elephants come in quarts! ]
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