Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-19 Thread msch
> > So: I changed line 186 in sys/dev/ata/ata-disk.c from > > > > adp->num_tags = atadev->param->queuelen; > > > > to > > > > adp->num_tags = 0x10; > > > > which is roughly the half of the reported queuelenght (which is 0x1F). > > > > And, Terry, I can't avoid to disappoint you... there's abs

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 18. April 2002 17:54 schrieb Terry Lambert: > > I wish someone who is having the problem would try the three > > hacks I suggested, and report back. I personally can't reproduce > > the problem here, either. > > So: I changed line 186 in sys/dev/at

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Am Donnerstag, 18. April 2002 17:54 schrieb Terry Lambert: > I wish someone who is having the problem would try the three > hacks I suggested, and report back. I personally can't reproduce > the problem here, either. So: I changed line 186 in sys/dev/ata/ata-disk.c from adp->num_tags = atadev->

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Am Donnerstag, 18. April 2002 17:54 schrieb Terry Lambert: > > I wish someone who is having the problem would try the three > hacks I suggested, and report back. I personally can't reproduce > the problem here, either. Ok, ok... ;-) I start *now*. I just compiled a new -current world (...puhh)

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On 18 Apr, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > >> What's your theory on it? > > > > None so far, I've instrumented the code here, and I simply cannot > > see what should go wrong (yet). > > Does it make sense to give this instrumentation to someone who can > reproduce

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 18 Apr, Søren Schmidt wrote: >> What's your theory on it? > > None so far, I've instrumented the code here, and I simply cannot > see what should go wrong (yet). Does it make sense to give this instrumentation to someone who can reproduce it? Bye, Alexander. -- It's not

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Andrew Tulloch
;; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 4:54 PM Subject: Re: ATA errors on recent -current "Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > > Oh yes you can, the ATA driver does just that in case of the drive > > > loosing its marbels. > > > > If it worked,

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > > Hmm, since I havn't been able to get my hands on the problem > > (I've been running 3 systems here with tags all over since the > > first report, not a single hickup yet :( ) I can't tell whats > > going on, it might be that the drive somehow gets really confused

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Terry Lambert
"Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > > Oh yes you can, the ATA driver does just that in case of the drive > > > loosing its marbels. > > > > If it worked, people wouldn't be having this problem. > > Hmm, since I havn't been able to get my hands on the problem > (I've been running 3 systems here with tags a

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > "Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > > I didn't mean for the reset itself, I meant for the process. You > > > can't "take back" writes that are in progress and not acknowledged, > > > in order to retry them after the reset, so as to not lose data. > > > > Oh yes you can, th

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > ...ahh, I mean, the driver *does* take an action (it/he(?) switches > back to PIO4), but why is any UDMA-Mode no longer usable afterwards? This is the $64 question. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in th

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Terry Lambert
"Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > I didn't mean for the reset itself, I meant for the process. You > > can't "take back" writes that are in progress and not acknowledged, > > in order to retry them after the reset, so as to not lose data. > > Oh yes you can, the ATA driver does just that in case of the

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > > > I didn't mean for the reset itself, I meant for the process. You > > > can't "take back" writes that are in progress and not acknowledged, > > > in order to retry them after the reset, so as to not lose data. > > > > Oh yes you can, the ATA driver doe

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Am Donnerstag, 18. April 2002 16:44 schrieb Søren Schmidt: > It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > > "Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > > It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > My other hunch is that there will need to be a channel reserved > > > > for "reset" commands to be queued to the disk, so that you can >

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > "Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > > > My other hunch is that there will need to be a channel reserved > > > for "reset" commands to be queued to the disk, so that you can > > > queue more commands to it later (e.g. can't connect to send the

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-18 Thread Terry Lambert
"Søren Schmidt" wrote: > It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > > My other hunch is that there will need to be a channel reserved > > for "reset" commands to be queued to the disk, so that you can > > queue more commands to it later (e.g. can't connect to send the > > reset because of the already disconn

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-17 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > My other hunch is that there will need to be a channel reserved > for "reset" commands to be queued to the disk, so that you can > queue more commands to it later (e.g. can't connect to send the > reset because of the already disconnected commands in progress). Ter

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-17 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > > 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 obvi

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-17 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
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/at

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-17 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 17 Apr, Terry Lambert wrote: >> device model IC35L060AVER07-0 >** ** > These match the test in ad_tagsupported(); I have to wonder about: > >> device model IC35L060AVER07-0 > ** Can you be more specific? >> firm

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-17 Thread Terry Lambert
Alexander Leidinger wrote: > device model IC35L060AVER07-0 ** ** These match the test in ad_tagsupported(); I have to wonder about: > device model IC35L060AVER07-0 ** > firmware revision ER6OA44A I also have to

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-17 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 16 Apr, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > Then I tried various combinations of UDMA100/66/33 and wc=0/1 - it > nearly doesn't change anything. If WC was enabled, I saw errors > concerning tags 0 *and* 1, whereas without write caching only tag=0 was > mentioned. I should say that my simple te

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-16 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: > > 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. My best guess is an off-by-one > > or an exceptional condition handler that was not an issue until > > recently

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-16 Thread John Baldwin
On 17-Apr-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: >> What was consistent thru all test was, that the disk operates quite >> some time until the error occures the first time. After that, it is not >> possible to access the disk in UDMA-Mode any more, regardeless *which* >> UDMA-Mode it is. 'Quite some time' mea

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-16 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > On Tuesday, 16. April 2002 01:48 you wrote: > > [...] > > As I said: it could be drive settings unrelated to the code > > itself being correct. I've given three suggestions to verify > > this, one way or the other: > > > > 1)Control the drive DMA speed down >

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-16 Thread Terry Lambert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As I said: it could be drive settings unrelated to the code > > itself being correct. I've given three suggestions to verify > > this, one way or the other: > > > > 1)Control the drive DMA speed down > > I *did* test with UDMA66 instead of UDMA100 and it was even

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-16 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Hi Terry and you all, On Tuesday, 16. April 2002 01:48 you wrote: > [...] > As I said: it could be drive settings unrelated to the code > itself being correct. I've given three suggestions to verify > this, one way or the other: > > 1)Control the drive DMA speed down > > 2)Pretend the m

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-16 Thread msch
> [...] > Since you have one of these beasts, could you maybe try changing > the number of tagged command queue entries you permit to be used > at one time? Of course, I'll do it as soon as... 1) I'm at home again... ;-) 2) Someone tells me how to achive that. I looked at 'man 8 atacontrol' a

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > I still have an old FreeBSD Test-Installation (45GB are big enough :-) > with a 4.4-STABLE as of Okt 23, 2001... > > It boots off the DTLA, uses tagged-queuing and connects using UDMA100... > ... and doesn't have any problems!! > > So, to bring some of you down t

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
I'm very sorry if I will be a bit unpolite, but I have to mail the following statement concerning the DTLA-Disks and FreeBSD: It may be all true and horrible, but - I still have an old FreeBSD Test-Installation (45GB are big enough :-) with a 4.4-STABLE as of Okt 23, 2001... It boots off the

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-04-14 23:46, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Is your drive perchance an IBM DTLA? > > It's known to have these problems. > > Nay. A Western Digital disk I bought about 2.5 years ago. Well that shoots that idea down. Try hacking the code to limit it to 3/4ths the num

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-04-15 15:56, S&psgr;ren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2002-04-14 23:46, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Is your drive perchance an IBM DTLA? > > > It's known to have these problems. > > > > Nay. A Western Digital disk I bought about 2.5 years ago. > > Hmm, AFAIK WD

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-04-14 23:46, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Is your drive perchance an IBM DTLA? > > It's known to have these problems. > > Nay. A Western Digital disk I bought about 2.5 years ago. Hmm, AFAIK WD newer had a disk that worked right with tags, and I've newer

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 15 Apr, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Is your drive perchance an IBM DTLA? >> It's known to have these problems. > > Nay. A Western Digital disk I bought about 2.5 years ago. And it does tagged queing? I thought IBM is the only manufacturer of such IDE drives... Bye, Alexander. --

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-04-14 23:46, Terry Lambert wrote: > Is your drive perchance an IBM DTLA? > It's known to have these problems. Nay. A Western Digital disk I bought about 2.5 years ago. G. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 15 Apr, Søren Schmidt wrote: > Again that has *nothing* to do with the DTLA drives and DMA speed > and the phase of the moon... But perhaps it depends on the distance between the drive and the nordpole... the ones with the problems are all more far away from it than you... ;-) > But it shows

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 15 Apr, Terry Lambert wrote: > Obviously, turning off tagged commands works, according to at least > one person who is reporting the problem. It helps every one I know of. [...] > Limiting the outstanding tagged commands to less than the advertised > amount would actually be my first choice

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > "Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > > For a more "scientific test", downloading the firmware tool and > > > setting the DMA transfer rate down, and checking for problems, > > > would be pretty overwhelming evidence. Personally, I don't have > > > any of the buggers lying ar

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Terry Lambert
"Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > For a more "scientific test", downloading the firmware tool and > > setting the DMA transfer rate down, and checking for problems, > > would be pretty overwhelming evidence. Personally, I don't have > > any of the buggers lying around to test with any more. > > Why on

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew Tulloch
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Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > > > IBM DTLA drives are known to be problematic. If you use that > > > in a search engine, it will find numerous references to the > > > drive electronics being too slow for sustained access to the > > > sectors closes to the spindle. > > > > This thread is about

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Terry Lambert
"Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > Is your drive perchance an IBM DTLA? > > > > It's known to have these problems. > > Cool! would you like to share where that information is available so > I can possibly work around the problem ?? IBM DTLA drives are known to be problematic. If you use that in a searc

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Terry Lambert
"Søren Schmidt" wrote: > It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > > "Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > > > Is your drive perchance an IBM DTLA? > > > > > > > > It's known to have these problems. > > > > > > Cool! would you like to share where that information is available so > > > I can possibly work around the pr

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > "Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > > Is your drive perchance an IBM DTLA? > > > > > > It's known to have these problems. > > > > Cool! would you like to share where that information is available so > > I can possibly work around the problem ?? > > IBM DTLA drives are know

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >> >> Some people see this after the "mega" MFC on -stable too. > >> > Could I have you guys try this simple patch ? > >> Does not work. > > No change or breaks completely (if so how)... > Sorry: "No change". Download the Windows executable I pointed to in a previous

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On 14 Apr, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Is your drive perchance an IBM DTLA? > > > > It's known to have these problems. > > Does this also apply to other IBM drives? Potentially. IBM renamed the part number when the drives got known to be dogs. I thought they also defa

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 15 Apr, =?x-unknown?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt wrote: >> >> Some people see this after the "mega" MFC on -stable too. >> > >> > Could I have you guys try this simple patch ? >> >> Does not work. > > As in: > > No change or breaks completely (if so how)... Sorry: "No change". Bye, Alexander. -

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On 15 Apr, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > >> Some people see this after the "mega" MFC on -stable too. > > > > Could I have you guys try this simple patch ? > > Does not work. As in: No change or breaks completely (if so how)... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send m

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 15 Apr, Søren Schmidt wrote: >> Some people see this after the "mega" MFC on -stable too. > > Could I have you guys try this simple patch ? Does not work. Bye, Alexander. -- Actually, Microsoft is sort of a mixture between the Borg and the Ferengi. http://www.Leidinger.net

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 15 Apr, =?x-unknown?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt wrote: >> Some people see this after the "mega" MFC on -stable too. > > Could I have you guys try this simple patch ? It failed to apply, applied it by hand. Compiling a new kernel now. Bye, Alexander. -- Where do you think you're

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 14 Apr, Terry Lambert wrote: >> > Turn off tagged queing. S?ren knows about this error and tries to >> > reproduce it (but fails as far as I know). >> >> I've seen this quite a few times, but I can't reliably reproduce it >> yet. It seems to hit me a lot when the ad0 drive spins like crazy >

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > I've seen this quite a few times, but I can't reliably reproduce it > > yet. It seems to hit me a lot when the ad0 drive spins like crazy > > doing stuff that is heavy on disk I/O. Disabling tag queueing now to > > see if this fixes things. But even if it

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 15 Apr, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> > I updated to -current today and am now getting these errors >> > >> > ad0: READ command timeout tag=1 serv=1 - resetting >> > ata0: resetting devices .. ad0: invalidating queued requests >> > done >> >> Turn off tagged queing. S?ren knows about this error

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-15 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > ad0: READ command timeout tag=1 serv=1 - resetting > > > > ata0: resetting devices .. ad0: invalidating queued requests > > > > done > > > > > > Turn off tagged queing. S?ren knows about this error and tries to > > > reproduce it (bu

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-14 Thread Terry Lambert
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > ad0: READ command timeout tag=1 serv=1 - resetting > > > ata0: resetting devices .. ad0: invalidating queued requests > > > done > > > > Turn off tagged queing. S?ren knows about this error and tries to > > reproduce it (but fails as far as I know). > > I've seen th

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-04-14 10:34, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On 14 Apr, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > I updated to -current today and am now getting these errors > > > > ad0: READ command timeout tag=1 serv=1 - resetting > > ata0: resetting devices .. ad0: invalidating queued requests > > done > > Turn off

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-14 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai
-On [20020414 17:00], Michael Class ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Quoting the real panic message would have been nice. >ad_service (e5217c00,1,12788100,0,0) +0x36 >ad_transfer (e51fcdc0) >ata_start >adstrategy >ar_rw >ar_promise_read_conf >ata_raiddisk_attach >ad_attach This looks a lot like the p

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-14 Thread Michael Class
Hello, just as an additional datapoint. My 5.0-current system panics during boot when I enable tagged queing. This did not happen with a system built on March 16th, but there have been numerous changes on the ata-subsystem inbetween and I was not able to trace this down to a specific change. The

Re: ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 14 Apr, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > I updated to -current today and am now getting these errors > > ad0: READ command timeout tag=1 serv=1 - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. ad0: invalidating queued requests > done Turn off tagged queing. Søren knows about this error and tries to repr

ATA errors on recent -current

2002-04-13 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
I updated to -current today and am now getting these errors ad0: READ command timeout tag=1 serv=1 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. ad0: invalidating queued requests done -- David W. Chapman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raintree Network Services, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer

Re: ATA errors

2000-02-22 Thread Nick Hibma
> >I cvsupped this morning and I just had a chance to build a new kernel, and > >now I get a "cannot mount root" and it drops into some kind of commandline > >where I can enter a root for it to mount. This is the error it gives me > >now: > > > >ata0-slave: WARNING: WAIT_INTR active=ATA_WAIT_READY

Re: ATA errors

2000-02-19 Thread Bryan Liesner
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: >I cvsupped this morning and I just had a chance to build a new kernel, and >now I get a "cannot mount root" and it drops into some kind of commandline >where I can enter a root for it to mount. This is the error it gives me >now: > >ata0-slave: WA

ATA errors

2000-02-19 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I cvsupped this morning and I just had a chance to build a new kernel, and now I get a "cannot mount root" and it drops into some kind of commandline where I can enter a root for it to mount. This is the error it gives me now: ata0-slave: WARNING: WAIT_INTR active=ATA_WAIT_READY ata0-slave: ata_c

ATA errors

2000-01-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
Whilst my -current system has stopped crashing every night, I got some odd log messages last night. At the time the system should have been doing a cvs update (or possibly a make world). There was nothing in the CD-ROM (ata0-slave) at the time. I'm running the latest version of ata (about 7 day

Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI

1999-12-21 Thread jack
Today Oliver Fromme wrote: > The comment in LINT about AUTO_EOI_2 sounds pretty suspicous, > so I never even tried it: "it works for some clones and some > integrated versions." That sounds to me like "it works on a > very limited set of hardware (and if you're lucky)." I've only got one out o

Is AUTO_EOI better? [was:Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI]

1999-12-21 Thread Dieter Rothacker
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:13:20 +0100, D. Rock wrote: >Oliver Fromme schrieb: >> Doug White wrote in list.freebsd-current: >> > On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: >> > > It seems Dieter Rothacker wrote: >> > > > The solution for me was to recompile the kernel without AUTO_EOI1 and >> > >

Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI

1999-12-21 Thread D. Rock
Oliver Fromme schrieb: > > Doug White wrote in list.freebsd-current: > > On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > It seems Dieter Rothacker wrote: > > > > The solution for me was to recompile the kernel without AUTO_EOI1 and > > > > AUTO_EOI2. > > > > > > Those options newer worked (

Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI

1999-12-21 Thread Oliver Fromme
Doug White wrote in list.freebsd-current: > On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Dieter Rothacker wrote: > > > The solution for me was to recompile the kernel without AUTO_EOI1 and > > > AUTO_EOI2. > > > > Those options newer worked (for me at least) reliably with anything

Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI

1999-12-21 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Dieter Rothacker wrote: > > > > Using the new board, I get "waiting for interrupt" errors, and the system > > freezes while trying to mount the disks (with kernel from 12/03) or the > > system freeezes before being able to detect the drives (w

Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI

1999-12-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dieter Rothacker wrote: > > Using the new board, I get "waiting for interrupt" errors, and the system > freezes while trying to mount the disks (with kernel from 12/03) or the > system freeezes before being able to detect the drives (with kernel from > 12/20). > > The solution for me wa

ATA errors and AUTO_EOI

1999-12-21 Thread Dieter Rothacker
Hi, I do not know if this issue has already been solved, but I cannot remember having read something about it. ATA errors directly after booting the kernel seem to be related to the usage of the fast IRQ tuning parameter "AUTO_EOI". Last night I migrated from my GA586DX (Dualbo