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Date:      05 Jan 2001 00:51:28 +0100
From:      Mads Hugo Pedersen <madsp@miba.auc.dk>
To:        Max Khon <fjoe@newst.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
Message-ID:  <4w3ae963mgv.fsf@ninka.miba.auc.dk>
In-Reply-To: Max Khon's message of "Fri, 5 Jan 2001 03:16:08 %2B0600 (NOVT)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101050306150.62768-200000@localhost>

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On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Max Khon uttered the following:

> Today I have installed latest -stable on a machine where previously I
> had 4.1-RELEASE working fine.
> 
> after make installkernel/reboot I have got the following messages on
> console:
> 
> ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. done
> ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. done

I had a similar problem with an old chipset which did not support dma,
so the controller (ata0) made a fallback to pio.

I edited /etc/sysctl.conf and added this line:
hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio

You can check your dma settings with "sysctl -a hw.atamodes".


/M@ds
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