After cvsuping today and making a new kernel, DMA is no longer working on my IDE disk with Soren's ata driver. As far as I can see, the only relevant change between my last working kernel and the new one is a fix for DMA with the pcm driver (RealPlayer now finally works, thanks Grant). Here is what I get: ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 46887ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 46999 status=59 error=01 ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode DMA was working fine on this motherboard (Intel AN430TX) and disk (IBM DTTA-371440) before the recent kernel upgrade (which was done two days ago). Any ideas? Following is my kernel configuration and complete dmesg. machine i386 cpu I586_CPU ident GOLD maxusers 32 options INET options FFS options FFS_ROOT options MFS options MSDOSFS options CD9660 options PROCFS options COMPAT_43 options UCONSOLE options USERCONFIG options VISUAL_USERCONFIG options KTRACE options SYSVSHM options SYSVMSG options SYSVSEM options AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO options SOFTUPDATES options COMPAT_LINUX options USER_LDT options TEL_S0_16_3 options P1003_1B options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options _KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L options DDB options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE controller isa0 controller pnp0 controller pci0 controller fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2 device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 controller ahc0 controller scbus0 device da0 device cd0 device pass0 controller ata0 device atadisk0 controller atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 device psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12 device vga0 at isa? port ? conflicts pseudo-device splash device sc0 at isa? device pcm0 device joy0 device npx0 at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13 device apm0 at nexus? controller card0 controller pcic0 at isa? port 0x3e0 irq 10 iomem 0xd0000 device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4 device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3 controller smbus0 controller intpm0 device smb0 at smbus? device isic0 at isa? port 0xd80 irq 15 flags 3 device ed0 device wi0 #controller ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 irq 7 #controller ppbus0 #device lpt0 #device plip0 #device ppi0 #controller vpo0 controller uhci0 controller usb0 device ugen0 device uhid0 device ukbd0 device ulpt0 controller umass0 device ums0 pseudo-device loop pseudo-device ether pseudo-device tun pseudo-device ppp 2 pseudo-device sppp 4 pseudo-device pty pseudo-device gzip pseudo-device bpf pseudo-device streams pseudo-device "i4bq921" pseudo-device "i4bq931" pseudo-device "i4b" pseudo-device "i4btrc" 4 pseudo-device "i4bctl" pseudo-device "i4brbch" 4 pseudo-device "i4btel" 2 pseudo-device "i4bipr" 4 pseudo-device "i4bisppp" 4 pseudo-device vinum options VINUMDEBUG Copyright (c) 1992-1999 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Dec 5 21:59:47 CET 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/delo/src/sys/compile/GOLD Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium/P55C (232.88-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x543 Stepping = 3 Features=0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX> real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes) avail memory = 61136896 (59704K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc03cf000. Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug vinum: loaded npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface apm0: <APM BIOS> on motherboard apm: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2 pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 ata-pci0: <Intel PIIX4 IDE controller> at device 7.1 on pci0 ata-pci0: Busmastering DMA supported ata0 at 0x01f0 irq 14 on ata-pci0 uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> irq 9 at device 7.2 on pci0 usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered intpm0: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> at device 7.3 on pci0 intpm0: I/O mapped 7000 intpm0: intr SMI disabled revision 0 smbus0: <System Management Bus> on intsmb0 smb0: <SMBus general purpose I/O> on smbus0 intpm0: PM I/O mapped 8000 ed0: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (Compex)> irq 9 at device 13.0 on pci0 ed0: address 00:80:48:ca:93:de, type NE2000 (16 bit) ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> irq 9 at device 14.0 on pci0 ahc0: aic7880 Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs vga-pci0: <S3 Trio graphics accelerator> irq 11 at device 15.0 on pci0 fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: <keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60-0x6f on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3d0-0x3db iomem 0xb8000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: <System console> on isa0 sc0: CGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200> pcic0: <Vadem 469> at port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 irq 10 on isa0 pccard0: <PC Card bus -- kludge version> on pcic0 pccard1: <PC Card bus -- kludge version> on pcic0 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A isic0 at port 0xd80 irq 15 flags 0x3 on isa0 isic0: Teles S0/16.3 isic0: ISAC 2085 Version A1/A2 or 2086/2186 Version 1.1 (IOM-2) (Addr=0x960) isic0: HSCX 82525 or 21525 Version 2.1 (AddrA=0x160, AddrB=0x560) pcm0: <Yamaha SA3> at port 0x220-0x22f,0x530-0x537,0x388-0x38f,0x330-0x331,0x370-0x371 irq 5 drq 0,1 on isa0 joy0: <Generic PnP Joystick> at port 0x201 on isa0 i4b: ISDN call control device attached i4bisppp: 4 ISDN SyncPPP device(s) attached i4bctl: ISDN system control port attached i4bipr: 4 IP over raw HDLC ISDN device(s) attached i4btel: 2 ISDN telephony interface device(s) attached i4brbch: 4 raw B channel access device(s) attached i4btrc: 4 ISDN trace device(s) attached ad0: <IBM-DTTA-371440/T71OA73A> ATA-4 disk at ata0 as master ad0: 13783MB (28229040 sectors), 28005 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad0: 16 secs/int, 32 depth queue, UDMA33 pccard: card inserted, slot 0 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/wd0s1a da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: <NEC D3847 0307> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) da1: 1547MB (3170160 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 197C) cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 cd0: <TEAC CD-ROM CD-532S 3.0A> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <IBM DORS-32160 WA6A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 2063MB (4226725 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 263C) ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 46887ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 46999 status=59 error=01 ad0: DMA problem encountered, fallback to PIO mode vinum: reading configuration from /dev/da1s1e vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da0s1e wi0: <WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11> at port 0x240-0x27f irq 7 slot 0 on pccard0 wi0: Ethernet address: 00:60:1d:04:af:db Blaz Zupan, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://home.amis.net/blaz/ Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message