evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread Brian F. Feldman
Welp, this is the n-dozenth time that the ATA driver has wedged large parts of my entire system because it feels it needs to reset my CD-R when I'm trying to start burning a CD. I get the good old acd0: WRITE_BIG command timeout - resetting ata3: resetting devices .. and then, like always,

Re: evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Brian F. Feldman wrote: Welp, this is the n-dozenth time that the ATA driver has wedged large parts of my entire system because it feels it needs to reset my CD-R when I'm trying to start burning a CD. I get the good old acd0: WRITE_BIG command timeout - resetting ata3:

RE: evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread Kozlovsky, Marek
Welp, this is the n-dozenth time that the ATA driver has wedged large parts of my entire system because it feels it needs to reset my CD-R when I'm trying to start burning a CD. I get the good old acd0: WRITE_BIG command timeout - resetting ata3: resetting devices .. I don't

Re: evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread Phil Knaack
Greetings: If the formatting of this msg is mucked, I apologize -- this is the only mailer available to me at the moment (ISP problems, and I'm not going to email from work). Welp, this is the n-dozenth time that the ATA driver has wedged large parts of my entire system because it

Re: evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread Riccardo Torrini
On 16-May-01 (15:14:50/GMT) Phil Knaack wrote: on udma controller. take a look at sysctl hw.atamodes (may look like 'dma,---,---,dma') and try change it to PIO mode. I noticed a few days ago that a new command was added to -current, called atacontrol. This command provides a real handy

Re: evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Riccardo Torrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I am missing some important information, but on my -CURRENT box (FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #17: Sat Apr 28 03:30:53 CEST 2001) I'm unable to find hw.atamodes :-( It has been replaced by the atacontrol(8) command. PS:

Re: evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 16), John Polstra said: PS: It is safer a world this days? I wouldn't like to loose all files and rest only with lost+found as on HEADS-UP of same days ago... Actually, I found that to be a very cleansing experience. ;-) Me too; I would probably have