more problems with 5.3 and "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA"

[Thomas Foster]

I had this same issue on an older AMD Nforce board.  5.2.1 seemed to install 
and run.. but moving to 5.3 gave me issues.  I tinkered with the DMA 
settings in the BIOS.. to no avail.  The Geometry seemed to be off on the 
drive I noticed (IBM deskstar) when I newfs'd it.. so I changed out drives.. 
but never got it working..  I eventually just dropped Gentoo on it.

What chipset, drive controller hard drive are you using on this system?

T

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Daemon" <mike.daemon at gmail.com>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 1:15 PM
Subject: more problems with 5.3 and "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA"


I got this annoying problem when upgradeing to 5.3, the miniinst iso
blurps out "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" when it starts writing base to my
disk. And when I tried to first install 5.2.1 and upgrade (cvsup, make
buildworld etc.. ) to 5.3 that way everything seems fine until I
reboot to single-user-mode, as soon as Im starting to write anything
to the disk it´s blurping out those errors.. I have diagnosticed my
disk, checked my cabling and fixed my PSU (installed a brand new one).
No difference. I noticed that my ide-controller was supported in 4.11,
but not? in 5.3, is that realy true? seems very strange...

Sence I duel boot with Wintendo/Lunix and don´t see this problem with
those oses I´m very confused of what to do next..

I´ll tried some snapshots to but no luck...

/ Mike

ps My dmesg goes in the attachment, in hope for a patch/solution to
this problem. ds



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