>
> 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 ..
>
I don't know this case, but I've seen such behavior with non dma-capable hdd
on udma controller. take a look at sysctl hw.atamodes (may look like
'dma,---,---,dma') and try change it (sysctl -w hw.atamodes=dma,---,---,pio)
to PIO mode. it might help.
Buki
> Is there _any_ hope for not having such horrible behavior?
> Am I at the very
> least not the only person to have seen it? This is the
> _only_ problem I've
> had with -current lockups this entire year.
>
> --
> Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to
> Serve! /
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