From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 8 23:17:05 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1439E16A468 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:17:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from netslists@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31D913C491 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:17:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from netslists@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so157834nzf for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:17:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=oIZy5iUgZ2htdpyWKYsnSr+SKyvPUyMSW+6yJgWbU0XwvBBTeWnwkW8SpQXaqMi7xs3I/a8kEQaPxJk3aZqCKhK7V6BEn5RO9qa2He3/VomUg/guMyL0euTVxz3N09B6MkWJg//fC+v6Ipb6WXqrVUN1uF12GL2seao2PfMJN/E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=D723ZYVnk5cC/H3UZuf8HKS2GnM4u6+VSQcqJQTBJBRMYf8Npe09bV4A4pRgShEqWONSU4YOG4AQFSCCgkIYuHToSU008Sws0Q17pW0ucZgFy79jWnO1i+O9Vqv1GkuFmypFNXR33SJklO1VLfoszLGdBvIkUqwmJrlyT35MfHs= Received: by 10.70.115.17 with SMTP id n17mr2255865wxc.1186615023669; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.12.8? ( [72.189.172.75]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z26sm1275309ele.2007.08.08.16.17.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46BA4EE2.2030907@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:16:50 -0400 From: Sten Daniel Soersdal User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mario Lobo References: <200708081330.32485.mario.lobo@ipad.com.br> In-Reply-To: <200708081330.32485.mario.lobo@ipad.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE ultraDMA problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:17:05 -0000 Mario Lobo wrote: > Hello to all; > > I had a MSI mobo 645 Ultra with 1.5G ram, pentium 4 1.7 Ghz, 3 IDE HD, 1 > SAMSUNG 80 G, 1 SAMSUNG 120 G, maxtor 120 G and a LG DVD writer. FreeBSD 6.2 > recognized all HDs as ultraDMA 100. Fine. > > Then a bought a ASUS p5vd2-x, 1G ram, Gforce 7200 video(pci-e), pentium D 940 > Dual core and kept the same drives. After tuning and recompiling the kernel > a couple times, I got almost everything working great ! SMP, acpi, network, > you name it, EXCEPT ultraDMA. > > if I leave: > > hw.ata.atapi_dma: 1 > hw.ata.ata_dma: 1 > > FreeBSD reports them (all) at ultraDMA 33. The system boots ok but after 7 or > 10 minutes (even if doing nothing), I start geting messages from > g_vfs_xxxx(); WRITE DMAERROR that can come from any of the drives until the > system becomes unstable and ends up rebooting itself. > > if I leave: > > hw.ata.atapi_dma: 0 > hw.ata.ata_dma: 0 > > The HDs get down to PIO 4 and the system works fine but at an incredible > performance cost. > > Finacial issues force me to make this work instead of buying more stuff. > > Thanks for any suggestions, Sorry, i that should be atacontrol cap not atacontrol info -- Sten Daniel Soersdal