Joe Koberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Zsolt K�ti wrote: > > >My system produces these messages that I already know well from this > >list (as well ;): > >ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=213249674 > > > > > Like many people I was confronted with "TIMEOUT - READ_DMA" > and "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" errors on my drives. I was frustrated. > But I found a workaround: Turning off ACPI.
dunno, I'd more suspect ACPI<->APIC issues : untill now I only had problems on nForce based systems, but today I installed a brand new VIA based A7VT mini-server and re-voila les "XXX_DMA" errors (and accompanying severe system slow-down). (Disk swapped from the old PII-233 minimalist-server; worked OK there; disabling APIC (in BOIS and/or config and/or hints) made disappear the XXX_DMA messages (and gave me my network connexion back ;) ) whilst ACPI still enabled). FYI, Arno _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
