WRITE_DMA problem again

[Cezar Fistik]

Hello Kendall,

Friday, April 22, 2005, 8:50:42 PM, you wrote:

> Anyhow, my understanding is that the current work-around to this
> problem is to turn DMA off for your ata drives. I guess this can be
> done manually with the atacontrol command as I've been doing (though
> as you'll see in my message linked above, I apparently need to do it
> differently/sooner). I also understand that you can do so by setting
> hw.ata.ata_dma="0"  in  /boot/loader.conf  .

Yes, I saw this suggestion in other posts, too. Well, I gave it a try.
I disabled dma yesterday and today I got the following:

 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 498669235 Hz quality 800
 ad0: 8693MB <IBM-DJNA-370910/J74OA30K> [17662/16/63] at ata0-master PIO4
 ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_MUL retrying (2 retries left) LBA=1573151
 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_MUL timed out

That's something completely new. Does anyone know what that means?


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