[5.4-STABLE] SATA & IDE ... don't co-exist on same machine?

Marc G. Fournier scrappy at hub.org
Fri May 27 20:39:59 PDT 2005


Ignore ... just figured it out ... had UDMA turned off for those drives in 
the BIOS :(  Turned it back on, and all four drives come up as expected 
again ...

Thanks ...

On Sat, 28 May 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> Today, I decided to merge two machines into one ... faster CPU, double the 
> RAM, etc ... but, seem to having a problem when trying to enable the SATA 
> drives ...
>
> Namely, there are 4 drives in this box .. two IDE (ad0 and ad1) and two SATA 
> (ad2 and ad3) ...
>
> When I try and boot with just the 2 IDE connected, it boots fine ...
>
> If I connect just the two SATA drives connected, it also boots fine ...
>
> If I connect all 4 drives, it boots on ad0, as expected, goes through the 
> boot messages until it hits  the line for ad0:
>
> ad0: 38166MB <WDC WD400JB-00ENA0/05.03E05> [77545/16/63] at ata0-master 
> UDMA33
>
> Then it just hangs there for a few seconds, and then pops out an READ_DMA 
> error ...
>
> After the first READ_DMA, it then shows me lines for ad1 thru ad3, and then 
> continously pumps out READ_DMA errors and never actually finishes booting ...
>
> Now, one thing I've noticed since booting with the two drives is:
>
> ata0-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
> ata0-slave: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
> ad0: 38166MB <WDC WD400JB-00ENA0/05.03E05> [77545/16/63] at ata0-master 
> UDMA33
> ad1: 76319MB <WDC WD800JB-00ETA0/77.07W77> [155061/16/63] at ata0-slave 
> UDMA33
>
> Both are running UDMA33 ... when I booted before, and it gave the READ_DMA 
> errors, it was reporting UDMA100 ... and I don't recall seeing the 
> 'non-ATA66' error lines ...
>
> Should this work?  Something that I'm overlooking?
>
> Thanks ...
>
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> Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
> Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664
>

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664


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