Greetings, Just an update.... I pulled out the Promise adapter and connected my disk to the primary embedded IDE controller (max speed PIO 4) Left the atapi CDRW drive as a SLAVE on the secondary controller. Next, I tried ripping an audio CD with cdda2wav, and to my surprise, it was successful. The system did report several messages during the ripping process, like.....
Feb 3 00:11:33 arabian kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left ) LBA=136492211 Feb 3 00:11:34 arabian kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out Feb 3 00:11:39 arabian kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left ) LBA=136414323 Feb 3 00:11:39 arabian kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out Feb 3 00:12:05 arabian kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left ) LBA=137621267 Feb 3 00:12:05 arabian kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out Feb 3 00:12:11 arabian kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left ) LBA=137543379 Feb 3 00:12:11 arabian kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out but it was successful. I disabled all ATA DMA (hw.ata.ata_dma="0" my in loader.conf) and tried to rip the disk again. It completed without a single error. Further, I was able to burn 5 CDs on the same drive at ridiculous speeds (48X reported by cdrecord) without a single issue. Hope this helps someone. I'm not at all sure where/what the problem is but I'll be happy to run on the embedded controller for the time being. (while PIO 4 != DMA 133, reliability/functionality is king!) If there's any way I can help solve this issue.... just say how! Kind regards -- Randall D. DuCharme (Radio AD5GB) Powered by FreeBSD! The Power to Serve _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
