Hi,
I have been trying to install yesterday's 4.0 snap on a no-name brand
motherboard with the VIA chipset, but I'm running in some problems. I
suspect there is a problem with the DMA. The error I'm getting when the
disk is newfs'ed is a repeating:
ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
ata0: resetting devices .. done
ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
ata0: resetting devices .. done
...
It seems that it is just going on and on. Shouldn't it back down to non
DMA mode after a while? Is there a way to disable the DMA on the install
floppies?
Part of the probe looks like this: (written down by hand)
atapci0: <VIA 82C586 ATA33 controller> port 0xe000 - 0xe00f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
...
ad0: 6204MB <ST36531A> [13446/15/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33
John
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