5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD - ata1-slave : TIMEOUT - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE retrying (0 retries left) -

[Brendon and Wendy]

All,

I've done a fair bit of testing on this now. Disabling ACPI, compiling
for UP/without apic makes no difference to this behaviour. I have
reconfigured the layout of my IDE devices, switched cables also with no
effect.

The only change that I have been able to do is swap drives with another
machine. Everything works fine now. So obviously the problem lies within
the cdrom drive itself. Booting the other machine, which runs an older
-current yielded the familiar missing interrupt message, the system
continued booting. The drive works just fine after boot. However, I
predict that if I update the kernel on the spare, this drive will become
unusable again.

So, Sos, I would urge you to find a workaround that allows for the
device to continue functioning per earlier kernels. It seems from the
mail on -current that there are at least a few people affected by this,
so I doubt that it is a hardware fault per se.

If the information is worth anything, the faultdrive is a Memorex 2452AJ
from 2003. The main machine is i860 based (ICH2), the spare is a fairly
recent KT400A? AMD/Via based thing.

Thanks,
Brendon

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 04:35, sos at deepcore.dk wrote:
> It seems Hugues Le Bars wrote:
> > I still have the same problem,
> > 
> > cd /usr/src;
> > make buildworld;
> > make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENEERIC 
> > make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC 
> > reboot and it hangs
> 
> >From the below I can see that the problem is that you are not getting
> interupts, and with the patch its not ATA's fault. Does it work if
> you boot without ACPI ? Also do you have device APIC (not ACPI) in the
> kernel ? does it work without it ?
> 
> > > > > > > I just recompiled (Sat Jan 17 CET 2004) /usr/src -current and at boot it hangs giving :
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > ata1-slave : TIMEOUT - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE retrying (0 retries left)
> > > > > > > ata1-slave : TIMEOUT - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE retrying (0 retries left)
> 
> -Søren 
>