Re: Disappointed with version 6.0
- From: Mike Jeays <mike.jeays@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 13:31:25 -0400
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On May 18, 2009 12:56:07 pm David Roberts wrote:
Hi, I was reading this thread as the problem I'm having seems quite
similar, and with version 7.2, although I had the same behavior with 6.3 as
well.
The only variation on the dialog below is I do not have any CDROM or other
device attached. My configuration is:
primary IDE: 10GB Seagate
seconardy IDE: 80GB Maxtor
My dmesg is giving me
ad0: 9541MB <Seagate ST310212A 3.39> at ata0-master UDMA66
ad2: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable
ad2: 76345MB <MAXTOR 6L080L4 A93.0500> at ata1-master UDMA33ad0: 9541MB
<Seagate ST310212A 3.39> at ata0-master UDMA66
ad2: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable
ad2: 76345MB <MAXTOR 6L080L4 A93.0500> at ata1-master UDMA33
Any ideas?
On Friday 10 March 2006 22:57, Peter wrote:
I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long time
and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My motherboard
is the ASUS K8V-X SE that I chose because it was listed as compatible
at the FreeBSD/amd64 Project:
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html
I wonder if going back to 5.4 might help?
Onto the problems...
1. I have 4 IDE drives:
primary controller: Maxtor 40 GB hd (master) and LG cdrom (slave)
secondary controller: Seagate Barracuda 200 GB hd (master) and
Seagate Barracuda 300 GB (slave)
Problem: The 300 GB drive is unusable.
I set it up ok with sysinstall during the installation but the system
will not boot properly if it has an entry in /etc/fstab. I get many
errors like:
"ad3: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63"
I also get input/output error if I try to examine its label with
disklabel.
dmesg output is at the end of this post when I booted without fstab
line.
The strange thing is that the two drives on the secondary controller
are so similar. Same manufacturer, same product line, the speeds are
the same. Everything is the same except the size. I ran dos-level
diagnostics on it and no problems were found.
2. I can't use my USB ports!
I get a line like this for each of my ports:
uhci0: port 0xb800-0xb81f irq 21 at
device 16.0 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
ACPI APIC Table:
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (2002.58-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0xf4a Stepping = 10
Features=0x78bfbffGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2> AMD
Features=0xe0500800
real memory = 536543232 (511 MB)
avail memory = 515702784 (491 MB)
< snip >
ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable
ad0: 39205MB at ata0-master UDMA33
acd0: CDROM at ata0-slave PIO4
ad2: 190782MB at ata1-master UDMA100
ad3: 286168MB at ata1-slave UDMA100
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
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You've got a problem alright, and you don't even see it.
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The ata driver sets the maximum transfer mode supported by the hardware
as default. However the ata driver sometimes warns: ``DMA limited to
UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device''. This means that the ata driver
has detected that the required 80 conductor cable is not present or
could not be detected properly, or that one of the devices on the
channel only accepts up to UDMA2/ATA33.
==========================
You've got your 40GB Maxtor (you've installed FreeBSD on it), an ATA100
device, connected with your CDROM, an ATA33 device. The result is: your
boot drive is running at UDMA33 instead of UDMA100. This is not going
to work real well, as you can see.
Do you really need that 40GB Maxtor? If you do, you're going to have to
try adding an ATA controller card into one of your PCI slots and use
that to connect your hard drives to.
Try removing the 40GB Maxtor and reinstalling FreeBSD on the other two
drives. I think that will clear up some problems for you.
Don
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Do you have the 80-wire IDE cable? The older 40-wire cables do not permit
speeds faster than DMA-33.
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