Re: evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 16), John Polstra said: > > PS: It is safer a world this days? I wouldn't like to loose all > > files and rest only with lost+found as on HEADS-UP of same days > > ago... > > Actually, I found that to be a very cleansing experience. ;-) Me too; I would probably

Re: evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Riccardo Torrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I am missing some important information, but on my -CURRENT > box (FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #17: Sat Apr 28 03:30:53 CEST 2001) I'm > unable to find hw.atamodes :-( It has been replaced by the atacontrol(8) command.

Re: evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread Riccardo Torrini
On 16-May-01 (15:14:50/GMT) Phil Knaack wrote: >> on udma controller. take a look at sysctl hw.atamodes (may look >> like 'dma,---,---,dma') and try change it to PIO mode. > I noticed a few days ago that a new command was added to -current, > called "atacontrol". This command provides a real han

Re: evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread Phil Knaack
Greetings: If the formatting of this msg is mucked, I apologize -- this is the only mailer available to me at the moment (ISP problems, and I'm not going to email from work). > > Welp, this is the n-dozenth time that the ATA driver has > > wedged large parts > > of my entire system because i

RE: evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread Kozlovsky, Marek
> > Welp, this is the n-dozenth time that the ATA driver has > wedged large parts > of my entire system because it feels it needs to reset my > CD-R when I'm > trying to start burning a CD. I get the good old > > acd0: WRITE_BIG command timeout - resetting > ata3: resetting devices .. >

Re: evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Brian F. Feldman wrote: > Welp, this is the n-dozenth time that the ATA driver has wedged large parts > of my entire system because it feels it needs to reset my CD-R when I'm > trying to start burning a CD. I get the good old > > acd0: WRITE_BIG command timeout - resetting > ata3: re

evil ATA

2001-05-16 Thread Brian F. Feldman
Welp, this is the n-dozenth time that the ATA driver has wedged large parts of my entire system because it feels it needs to reset my CD-R when I'm trying to start burning a CD. I get the good old acd0: WRITE_BIG command timeout - resetting ata3: resetting devices .. and then, like always, t