Re: flood of dashes and a beep ??? what are they?

2021-12-13 Thread uxer
I may have presented my question in a confusing way, mixing in 2 PCs, 2 dmesg'es and a variety of issues. Excuse me. > it's unusual that > some ports show up under ahci(4) and some under pciide(4). You must have two > separate SATA controllers with separate config sections in the BIOS. 2 PCs,

Re: flood of dashes and a beep ??? what are they?

2021-12-13 Thread Chris Cappuccio
u...@mailo.com [u...@mailo.com] wrote: > > But is it an OpenBSD-compatibility issue > or does my chipset want to retire? These issues sound like they are related to lack of software support driven by a lack of programming documentation.

Re: flood of dashes and a beep ??? what are they?

2021-12-11 Thread Chris Cappuccio
The pciide driver doesn't support your Nvidia chipset. It needs extra code (specific for this chip) for DMA to work properly. The driver was targeted towards older systems, it shouldn't be used on any board that supports AHCI. AHCI has more capabilities including NCQ and will offer better

flood of dashes and a beep — what are they?

2021-12-11 Thread uxer
I believe it was the nVIDIA nForce 570 SLI chipset of Asus M2N-E motherboard that caused 3 kinds of errors, one kind being a multitude of: wd0(pciide1:0:0): timeout type: ata c_bcount: 16384 c_skip: 0 pciide1:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21 wd0a: