WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10)
craig
craig at small-pla.net
Thu Dec 2 03:58:11 PST 2004
as much as i have tried, i have still not managed to resolve this issue.
the best i can do at this time is to revert back to 4.10-stable (which has
its own USB issues...)
considering this is a fairly serious issue (at least, to me it is), would it
be appropriate to post a PR?
i have done a cursory search through the archive and not come up with
anything similar.
thanks,
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craig at small-pla.net
-----Original Message-----
From: DanGer [mailto:danger at wilbury.sk]
Sent: 29 November 2004 17:23
To: craig; questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re[2]: WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10)
Hi craig,
Monday, November 29, 2004, 10:47:11 AM, you thoughtfully wrote the
following:
>>DanGer wrote:
>>[...]
>>>
>>>
>>> i have the same issue on brand new 200gb ata maxtor hard drive. i
>>> had the same issue on 5.2.1, but when i upgraded to 5.3 i decided to
>>> turn on ata dma but after 9 days of uptime it froze..no logs,
>>> whatever...so i turned ata dma off for now, and i will stay and
>>> watch what will happen..
>>
>>That's very helpful, thank you. The behaviour you describe - machine
>>freezing - is exactly what I have experienced. I'm feeling vaguely
>>optimistic now :-)
>>
>>>
>>> but there should be some other fix, because i don't want to keep my
>>> disc in pio mode :/
>>
>>Absolutely. But I guess, since I'm not going to try to produce a fix
>>myself, I can't whinge too loudly. A workaround is what I need right
>>now and I hope you've confirmed that this is one.
>>
>>Peter.
> have you had any luck yet?
there wasn't reboot since last, when i turned dma off and i have no strange
messeges in logs..but i have to remind you, that the box froze after 9 days
of uptime, when i had dma turned on, so...
> i've disabled DMA at a bios level, but it seems to make no discernable
> difference. and the installation still fails...
try to turn it off in system before boot in loader prompt
(not sure if this is possible:))
> have the IDE drivers changed between 4.10 and 5.3?
i think so, but there are people who understands this more than me ;-)
> much thanks,
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