Re: dma/sysctl

From: Chris Warren (chris_at_dawgiestyle.com)
Date: 03/06/05

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    Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:11:00 -0700 (MST)
    To: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com>
    
    

    Definitely try a different IDE cable before anything else. Its cheap, and
    in my case, it solved the problem.
    If it doesn't, then at least you will have eliminated that as a possibility.

    Chris

    On Sat, March 5, 2005 4:58 pm, Rob said:
    > Luciano Musacchio wrote:
    >> Hi,
    >> I've a fbsd machine that hangs once in a while,
    >> I've this en /var/log/messages:
    >> ...
    >> Mar 5 14:44:58 chiba kernel: ad2: WARNING -
    >> WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request)
    >> LBA=2949471
    >> ...
    >>
    >> So, this means my hd is about to crash?
    >> How can I tell the kernel to reboot on such cases?
    >> (via sysctl?)
    >
    > This is 5.3, right? I bet you would not have such
    > problems with 4.X.
    >
    > My PC instantly crashed at boot with this same
    > message. I solved it by adding following to
    > /boot/loader.conf:
    > hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
    >
    > This will force the harddisk to operate in slow
    > PIO4 mode, but in my case the DMA trouble disappeared.
    >
    > Rob.
    >
    >
    >
    >
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