RE: DMA errors

From: Mike Jeays (Mike.Jeays_at_rogers.com)
Date: 10/31/05

  • Next message: Fafa Hafiz Krantz: "mp3.sh: Asking for advice" 
    To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:00:24 -0500

    On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 02:11, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
    > >-----Original Message-----
    > >From: Mike Jeays [mailto:Mike.Jeays@rogers.com]
    > >Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 8:04 PM
    > >To: Ted Mittelstaedt
    > >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    > >Subject: RE: DMA errors
    > >
    > >
    > >On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 19:48, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
    > >> Try a different disk drive.
    > >>
    > >> What motherboard is in use here?
    > >>
    > >> Ted
    > >>
    > >> >-----Original Message-----
    > >> >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    > >> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Mike Jeays
    > >> >Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:28 PM
    > >> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    > >> >Subject: DMA errors
    > >> >
    > >> >
    > >> >I have a 40GB Maxtor D740X-6L disk, and have been unable to
    > >install 5.4
    > >> >or 6.0 on it. I get errors:
    > >> >
    > >> >ad0: FAILURE WRITE_DMA STATUS=51 <READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84 (IRC,
    > >> >ABORTED) LBA=..
    > >> >
    > >> >as soon as I try to commmit the changes in sysinstall.
    > >> >
    > >> >I have checked that the IDE cable is the 80-wire type, and cleaned up
    > >> >the connections and so on.
    > >> >
    > >> >I tried installing Ubuntu on this disk, and everything went
    > >perfectly.
    > >> >(Those guys have done a really great job, by the way).
    > >> >
    > >> >Is there some configuration trick I have missed?
    > >> >
    > >> >_______________________________________________
    > >> >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
    > >> >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
    > >> >To unsubscribe, send any mail to
    > >> >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
    > >> >
    > >> >--
    > >> >No virus found in this incoming message.
    > >> >Checked by AVG Free Edition.
    > >> >Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.6/151 - Release Date:
    > >> >10/28/2005
    > >> >
    > >
    > >It works on at least one other disk, a Western Digital 80GB. The
    > >motherboard is as Asus P4S533.
    > >
    >
    > Well I hate to be flippant, but there you have it, problem solved.
    >
    > I have been doing PC work professionally for over 10 years and
    > unprofessionally for at least 10-15 years before that, and ever
    > since the IDE interface was invented I've had to deal with
    > incompatibilties between the controller and the hard disk. Back
    > in the days that the IDE controller chip was on a paddle card I
    > used to have a box of them and when running into a problem like
    > your doing, I would swap the cards until I got a good combo. This
    > was all ISA stuff of course. Once the PCI came out and they
    > started putting the controller on motherboard, they only way around
    > these problems is to play musical chairs with the disk drives.
    >
    > And all this was long before FreeBSD, let alone Linux, was even
    > a gleam in someone's eye.
    >
    > Your 40GB Maxtor has some moronic timing incompatibility with the
    > IDE chipset that the FreeBSD driver in 5.4/6.0 happens to tickle,
    > there's nothing you can do about it. Use your 80GB disk for the
    > FreeBSD system or go find some other brand of motherboard for your
    > 40GB disk, and things will work fine.
    >
    > Ted
    >
    > _______________________________________________
    > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
    > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
    > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"

    Thanks for the advice, and that is probably what I will do.

    However, before I bought the 80GB disk, I used to run 4.6 on the Maxtor
    40GB, with no problems. Furthernore, this disk and MB will still run
    Ubuntu and Fedora, so it seems that later FreeBSD releases are more
    sensitive, or drive the hardware a bit harder.

    _______________________________________________
    freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
    http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
    To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"

  • Next message: Fafa Hafiz Krantz: "mp3.sh: Asking for advice"

    Relevant Pages

    • RE: DMA errors
      ... >> in the days that the IDE controller chip was on a paddle card I ... >> these problems is to play musical chairs with the disk drives. ... >> FreeBSD system or go find some other brand of motherboard for your ... FreeBSD drives disks a bit harder than other OSes, ...
      (freebsd-questions)
    • Re: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB
      ... I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 on a HP DL320s. ... RAID controller with 12 SATA disk drives attached to it. ...
      (freebsd-questions)
    • Re: SATA HDD seen at UDMA33
      ... Can anyone please tell me why it's seen at UDMA33 and how can I fix this so it's detected correctly? ... I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. ... Don't worry that it says 'UDMA33' - your disk runs at full speed anyway. ... This looks like a problem with the disk controller rather than with the disk ...
      (freebsd-questions)
    • RE: formatting disk for FreeBSD : Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip]
      ... Subject: formatting disk for FreeBSD: Detecting IDE Primary Master ... FreeBSD can use any IDE drive on any IDE controller, ...
      (freebsd-questions)
    • Re: interesting problem
      ... I have this nice SATA drive and controller which I believe is ... >> by FreeBSD but not in the default build for releases. ... > There is no ATA support that is not included in the stock GENERIC ... > It would be helpfull to know what controller and disk we are talking ...
      (freebsd-current)