I had this same issue on an older AMD Nforce board. 5.2.1 seemed to install and run.. but moving to 5.3 gave me issues. I tinkered with the DMA settings in the BIOS.. to no avail. The Geometry seemed to be off on the drive I noticed (IBM deskstar) when I newfs'd it.. so I changed out drives.. but never got it working.. I eventually just dropped Gentoo on it.

What chipset, drive controller hard drive are you using on this system?

T

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Daemon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 1:15 PM
Subject: more problems with 5.3 and "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA"



I got this annoying problem when upgradeing to 5.3, the miniinst iso blurps out "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" when it starts writing base to my disk. And when I tried to first install 5.2.1 and upgrade (cvsup, make buildworld etc.. ) to 5.3 that way everything seems fine until I reboot to single-user-mode, as soon as Im starting to write anything to the disk itīs blurping out those errors.. I have diagnosticed my disk, checked my cabling and fixed my PSU (installed a brand new one). No difference. I noticed that my ide-controller was supported in 4.11, but not? in 5.3, is that realy true? seems very strange...

Sence I duel boot with Wintendo/Lunix and donīt see this problem with
those oses Iīm very confused of what to do next..

Iīll tried some snapshots to but no luck...

/ Mike

ps My dmesg goes in the attachment, in hope for a patch/solution to
this problem. ds



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