Cezar Fistik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Kendall, > > Friday, April 22, 2005, 8:50:42 PM, you wrote: > > > Anyhow, my understanding is that the current work-around to this > > problem is to turn DMA off for your ata drives. I guess this can be > > done manually with the atacontrol command as I've been doing (though > > as you'll see in my message linked above, I apparently need to do it > > differently/sooner). I also understand that you can do so by setting > > hw.ata.ata_dma="0" in /boot/loader.conf . > > Yes, I saw this suggestion in other posts, too. Well, I gave it a try. > I disabled dma yesterday and today I got the following: > > Timecounter "TSC" frequency 498669235 Hz quality 800 > ad0: 8693MB <IBM-DJNA-370910/J74OA30K> [17662/16/63] at ata0-master PIO4 > ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_MUL retrying (2 retries left) LBA=1573151 > ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_MUL timed out > > That's something completely new. Does anyone know what that means?
Like the symptoms you got with DMA enabled, it *probably* means you have *some* kind of hardware problem. The cable would be a likely candidate, but I'd definitely be making extra backups if I were you. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
