ATA DMA problem?

[Wiktor Niesiobedzki]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 01:14:53PM +0200, Soeren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Wiktor Niesiobedzki wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > While booting, i've got problems with booting from old disk. Turning
> > hw.ata.ata_dma=0 solves the problem, but the boot disk is non-dma.
> > Any clues?
> 
> > ad0: soft error (ECC corrected) cmd=read fsbn 1056321 of 0-3
> > ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 1056321 of 0-3
> >  status=65 error=04
> > ad0: soft error (ECC corrected) cmd=read fsbn 382 of 191-206
> > ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 382 of 191-206
> > status=65 error=04
> 
> That smells like a dying disk to me actually...
> 
I would say the same, but this disk is working OK when I set hw.ata.ata_dma=0,
and was working ok with old kernels (last working kernel I had was from
begining of March). 

Cheers,

Wiktor Niesiobedzki