On 7/26/05, J. Porter Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 7/25/05, J. Porter Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> The ATA (definitely not SATA) controller on my Dell Latitude > >> C840 laptop has READ_DMA, WRITE_DMA problems, maybe 2-3 times > >> a day unless I turn off DMA. It hangs for 3-4 seconds, logs > >> errors, then proceeds. It isn't heavily loaded. I tried using > >> Soren's ATA mkIII patches, and now it likes to panic about that > >> same frequency instead of hanging, so I'm going back to the > >> stock RELENG_5 config next chance I get. > >> > >> It's one of these: > >> > >> atapci0: <Intel ICH3 UDMA100 controller> port > >> 0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x 3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0 > > >Your going back to stock RELENG_5 from what? > > RELENG_5 with Soren's patches. > > >I have that very same laptop running FreeBSD from 5.0 up to 5.4 with > >absolutely no DMA problems using it. > >Note: I did exchange the HDD from 20 to 60GB, different brands. > > Might be a clue. My laptop has this: > > ad0: 19077MB <IC25N020ATCS04 0 CA2OA72A> at ata0-master UDMA100 >
Mine is: ad0: 57231MB <FUJITSU MHS2060AT/8004> [116280/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 > Typical errors: > Jul 23 15:00:33 auricle kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 > retries left) LBA=20586350 > Jul 25 09:01:52 auricle kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_MUL retrying (2 retries > left) LBA=1731115 > > I had been running 4.X on this box with no DMA problems until I > put 5.3 on it many months ago. It also boots Windows XP, and I > don't have any obvious disk problems with that. > I dual boot between XP and FreeBSD and even use VMWare to boot FreeBSD with the real partition. Nice having FreeBSD compiling something in the background while using XP :) > Do you have trouble with the touchpad occasionally going nuts? > I had mine replaced, and it still does it. With any OS I care > to boot. That is a keyboard problem (the pointer device in the keyboard) I had one exchanged on this C840 and 2 others on a C610. > > I have some Firewire-related problems, too, but I won't go into > them right now. I *think* I tested networking and attached storage with firewire. If you care to email me with your problems I can try see if it happens to me too. -- Joao Barros _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
