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

[Jan Sebosik]

Hi

Yeah, I`ve tested it 2 times (switching it in BIOS). To me it seems bit 
mysterious, why there is a relationship between HPET setting and acd/cd 
problems in FreeBSD.


Jeremy Chadwick napsal(a):
> 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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