ATA timeout errors

2000-03-14 Thread Will Saxon
Hello, I think this may have already been presented/answered but I am not certain. I have noticed recently that every so often I will get the following set of messages, generally right after the bootup sequence finishes: ad0: READ command timeout - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0:

Re: ATA timeout errors

2000-03-14 Thread Patrik Sundberg
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 12:17:15PM -0500, Will Saxon wrote: Hello, I think this may have already been presented/answered but I am not certain. I have noticed recently that every so often I will get the following set of messages, generally right after the bootup sequence finishes: ad0:

Re: ATA timeout errors

2000-03-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Patrik Sundberg wrote: I also get this when booting - think it started happening when I started using the new ata-driver. For me it happens when the root is supposed to be mounted (from dmesg): As you can see I am using a seagate disk and I am having the same problem.

Re: ATA timeout errors

2000-03-14 Thread Eric Jacoboni
Will Saxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ad0: READ command timeout - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done (...) I dont get any panics or anything, and after the reset to PIO everything seems to work fine. You're lucky ;-) I have the same kind of messages, but it ends with a dead freeze

Re: ATA timeout errors

2000-03-14 Thread Patrik Sundberg
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:33:55PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Patrik Sundberg wrote: I also get this when booting - think it started happening when I started using the new ata-driver. For me it happens when the root is supposed to be mounted (from dmesg): As you

Re: ATA timeout errors

2000-03-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Patrik Sundberg wrote: Tested my CDROM for audio just now - works fine (at least pressing the buttons on the unit, have no softwareplayer to test with so it might not work anyway - my cd is total crap and usually has all kinds of problems..) The problem is with cdcontrol

Re: ATA timeout errors

2000-03-14 Thread Will Saxon
Well, while this isn't a problem that causes panics or makes people unable to use their machines, I think maybe the removal of the older wd driver ought to be held off until the ata driver provides all the features wdc does don't you think? I guess the philosophy here is that there shouldn't be

Re: ATA timeout errors

2000-03-14 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2315 00:00], Will Saxon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I will continue to use ata because my drives work (albeit in PIO mode apparently) and I don't play audio off the cdrom. Some people will probably hold off on upgrading to 4.0 because of this, and I don't know if anyone important cares