Hello, Am Mittwoch, 17. April 2002 03:14 schrieben Sie: > Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > > I used 'atacontrol' to read the number of tags allowed: it is 31 > > (0x1F). Perhaps Soren could tell me how to force it to, say, 0x10? > > You have to modify the source code in ~line 180 of > /sys/dev/ata/ata-disk.c.
Well, thanks for the hint. I just have to wait until I get a new 'current'-world... yesterday it didn't compile and because of an, say, 'indisposition' of vinum (I changed another slice on a vinum-disk, so it dislikes the whole plex :-^ ) I lost my current /usr/obj... > > Then I tried various combinations of UDMA100/66/33 and wc=0/1 - it > > nearly doesn't change anything. BTW: I switched UDMA speed using 'atacontrol'... > > After the first switch to PIO4, I umounted the filesystem and > > switched back to UDMA33 for instance - I couldn't even *mount* the > > filesystem again! > > [...] > My hunch, which is why I suggested decreasing the number of > tags seen by the driver, is that the tagged queues are over > used, and this locks the disk up. [...] Yes, I understand this (I for myself had already your 'off-by-one'-suspicion - it's obvious if one sees the error message) and I'll test it ASAP. What I was wondering yesterday before I fell asleep is that the disk is obviously not able to recover from this error - even if the error condition is no longer valid due to the switch to PIO-mode. *Any* DMA-mode is no longer useable. I don't know if it's an attribute of these disks or an issue solvable by a/the driver. I would expect to be able to do a software reset of the drive like with SCSI, but I'm a bit biased against ATA (vs. SCSI) because of the opinion/argues of a very knowledgeable guy here in the german newsgroup (former core team member ;-), so I wouldn't be surprised if that's not possible or not specified. -- Ciao/BSD - Matthias Matthias Schuendehuette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Berlin (Germany) Powered by FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
