From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 18:29:33 2008 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 74DD5106567F for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:29:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558EC8FC26 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:29:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.60]) by QMTA04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id b3Ch1a0021HpZEsA46VYPU; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:29:32 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id b6VX1a00T2P6wsM8a6VXn9; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:29:32 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=Qww_42MyOAgA:10 a=QrKowp_NS8wA:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=qXn8vqQhV3fQnEews24A:9 a=ERRjNRYhh0bamlZS2XwA:7 a=Ip-xrTQoREOWobeMAEt1TfwmiFgA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 97AE4C9419; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:29:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:29:31 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Al Plant Message-ID: <20081104182931.GA54773@icarus.home.lan> References: <49106440.4010906@kukulies.org> <1225813899.2734.1.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> <491090CE.1090900@hdk5.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <491090CE.1090900@hdk5.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Christoph Kukulies , Julien Cigar , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR 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: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:29:33 -0000 On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:13:34AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: > Julien Cigar wrote: >> I've this problem too on almost all my machines. The only solution I've >> found is to disable DMA (atapi_dma), but then performances are very poor >> (and I'm still unable to burn a CD/DVD) >> >> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:03 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> don't know whether it's the CDROM drive (a Creative 52x mx) or the >>> motherboard (ASUS P4S8X) or what. >>> Anyway, I tried to install a recent version of FreeBSD (7.1-BETA2) >>> and the installation >>> hangs right in the boot process of the installation CD disc1. >>> >>> I see >>> >>> acd0: FAILURE - READ BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00 >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for xpt_config >>> >>> and so on. >>> >>> Any clues? >>> >>> -- >>> Christoph Kukulies >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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" > ############ > > Aloha, > > I have had similiar happen on 7 and 8 Freebsd installs recently. > > If you install using safe mode it will work. Then in /boot/loader.conf > > #boot/loader.conf > hw.ata.ata-dma=0 > hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 There is no hw.ata.ata-dma tunable. I think you mean hw.ata.ata_dma (note: underscore, not hyphen). If you really are using hw.ata.ata-dma, it does nothing. :-) Also folks, please remember that "ATA DMA" is for hard disks, and "ATAPI DMA" is for ATAPI devices (CD/DVD drives). Error messages from xpt_* functions are from by the ATAPI-to-CAM emulation layer (think: SCSI emulation for ATAPI devices), but are likely signs of underlying compatibility problems between the CD/DVD drive and FreeBSD, and not the fault of atapicam(4). I'm not sure if there's a loader hint to disable xpt. > The error that comes up when you burn a CD seems to be bogus as I have > used the CD's with out error for installing on other boxes. The "READ BIG MEDIUM ERROR" often indicates that the CD/DVD drive does not support a specific read operation mode; some CD/DVD manufacturers don't implement this command for various reasons. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |