5.3 and CD/DVD ROM

[Anish Mistry]

On Sunday 09 January 2005 03:28 pm, draco wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am using FreeBSD on my laptop as a desktop OS. I am quite pleased by
> its - the FreeBSD's - general reliability. I was using 5.2.1 previously
> too, I've upgraded to 5.3-STABLE in the middle of the December 2004.
>
> Few days later I noticed that I cannot mount any of my CD ROMs anymore.
> When I do:
>
> #mount -t cd9600 /dev/acd0 /mnt/cdrom
>
> there drive spins up, its LED gets on, and ... nothing happens for some
> time. Simultaneously I can observe messages on the console such as:
>
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (2 retries left)
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (2 retries left)
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (2 retries left)
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (2 retries left)
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (2 retries left)
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (2 retries left)
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (2 retries left)
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out
>
> (yes, seven times), and then the mount commands answers
>
> "cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error"
>
> Here's the drive name as returned by dmesg:
>
> acd0: CDRW <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2212/1314> at ata1-master UDMA33
>
> Here's the sysctl settings for ATA:
>
> hw.ata.ata_dma: 1
> hw.ata.wc: 1
> hw.ata.atapi_dma: 1
>
> Here's the atacontrol "list" output for channel 1:
>
> ATA channel 1:
>      Master: acd0 <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2212/1314> ATA/ATAPI revision 5
>      Slave:       no device present
>
> Here's the atacontrol "mode" output for channel 1:
>
> Master = UDMA33
> Slave  = BIOSPIO
>
> The machine is Toshiba Satellite 1405-S151.
>
> I am using a custom kernel, but the generic kernel distributed on the
> bootable ISO image had exactly the same problem, when it came do acd0
> initialization. In my kernel config file I have:
>
> # ATA and ATAPI devices
> device          ata
> device          atadisk                 # ATA disk drives
> device          atapicd                 # ATAPI CDROM drives
> options         ATA_STATIC_ID           #Static device numbering
>
> The CD-ROMs I am trying to mount are:
>
> 1) burned (yes, I read this list's archive before asking the question);
>
> 2) these are data CD's with ISO filesystem on them;
>
> 3) these CDs are burned properly (Windows XP on the same machine has no
> problem mounting them; more over, FreeBSD 5.2.1 running on the same
> machine had no problem mounting them);
>
> What can I do to get the drive working?
>
In /boot/loader.conf add:
hw.ata.atapi_dma="0"

-- 
Anish Mistry
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