Frebsd 7-STABLE, atapicd, atapicam and Intel errors [SOLVED]

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:08:34AM +0100, Jan Sebosik wrote:
> Hi again
>
> so it seems to be a problem with HPET timer which is onboard and was  
> enabled. If I turned him off, (acd | cd) problems went away.
>
>
> Jan Sebosik napsal(a):
>> Hi all
>>
>> OS: Freebsd 7-STABLE from CVS of today
>> Problematic HW: Intel DQ45CB  (Q45 chipset, ICH10, SATA in native mode, 
>> but not AHCI), LG SATA DVD-RW GH20NS15
>>
>> Problem: if I run freebsd without LG DVD connected to any SATA port  
>> onboard everything works allright. When I connect SATA DVD to board,  
>> then freebsd refuses to boot with messages similar to those:
>>
>> acd0: FAILURE-READ_BIG timed out
>> unknown: FAILURE-READ_BIG timed out
>> cddone: goit error 0x5 back
>>
>> Messages are repeating forever.
>>
>> Anybody knows where should be a bug?
>> Temporary I`ve disconnected LG SATA burner from system board.
>>
>> Thanks for any idea.
>>
>> Best regards

Are you ***absolutely 100% certain*** this is true?  The time counter
selected shouldn't have anything to do with the errors you see.
Please thoroughly test this.

I'd CC jhb@ to get confirmation of my statement, but I've promised
myself I wouldn't bother him until 2009.  :-)

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