Lots of DMA messages on FreeBSD 10

[Johan Hendriks]

Glen Barber schreef:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 03:25:11PM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote:
>> Glen Barber schreef:
>>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 02:36:02PM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote:
>>>> I just updated my machine from 9-STABLE to 10-Stable today.
>>>>
>>>> beasty ~ # uname -a
>>>> FreeBSD beasty.schavemaker2.local 10.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 10.0-BETA3 #0 r258543:
>>>> Mon Nov 25 13:23:31 CET 2013
>>>> root at beasty.schavemaker2.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KRNL  amd64
>>>>
>>>> After a reboot, the console gets cluttered with a lot of messages.
>>>>
>>>> ata2: FAILURE - zero length DMA transfer attempted
>>>> ata2: setting up DMA failed
>>>> These messages go on and on.
>>>>
>>>> ata2 is my cdrom drive!
>>>>
>>>> Is there something i can try?
>>>>
>>> Is there a CD in the drive?
>>>
>>> Glen
>>>
>> Ok i found the culprit, but do not know how to isolate the problem.
>> I noticed that the message came every two seconds.
>> So my thought was to disable hald and dbus, I rebooted and the message is
>> gone.
>>
>> Is there a setting to disable the cdrom check?
>>
> Ah.  Due to some CAM changes, after upgrading from 9.x to 10.x,
> rebuilding sysutils/hald should work.
>
> Anything using the CAM system will have to be rebuilt as well (i.e.,
> sysutils/smartmontools).
>
> Glen
>
Thanks, i will start and rebuild all of the installed ports.
It will take some time.

Thanks again for your time!!

regards
Johan