Greetings all, Due to yesterday error on 4.9-RELEASE of FreeBSD. <snip> hard error reading fsbn ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode
& libfreetype.a: Bad address </snip> i tried changing some kernel paramaters mainly these two hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" hw.ata.ata_dma="1" However, that didn't change anything. I also recompiled the GENERIC kernel (as is - on first installation) and that produced the same error, when trying to install XFree86-4. So I revereted back to 4.8-RELEASE of FreeBSD. Lo and Behold everything worked fine. No errors nothing. So I again installed 4.9-RELEASE on my laptop and what do I find? Yes thats right, dmesg out of the same sort of error "hard error reading fsbn ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode" I think my laptop doesn't like 4.9-RELEASE. Has anyone experienced something like this before? My laptop is a Dell Latitude (H model i think). I dont really know how to troubleshoot/fix this. If anyone has any ideas/suggestions, on how to go about this id greatly appreciate it. Im not sure, if it maybe a BIOS thing or a kernel thing. Thanks again Hi, thanks for that. I know it works with 4.8. but ill try re-installing it again and see how i go. Ill post again later if i still have the same problems. Thank-you --- Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > eodyna wrote: > [ ... ] > > Ive taken out the harddrive and replaced it with a > > different one and i still see the same sort of > error > > message > > > > does anyone have any ideas on how to help me? > > Try a process of elimination, by swapping out each > component and retesting > until you figure out what is failing-- ie, swap the > cable, try using another > motherboard (or swap a drive that was "failing" on > your problem system to > another machine), and/or finally try swapping out > the OS and try installing > Linux or Windows and see whether this is a > FreeBSD-specific problem rather > than, say, a bad MB, flaky cable, bad power supply, > etc.... > > -- > -Chuck > Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
