Hi Nick, Well it might be just a workaround but thanks to this fix my firewall now boots smoothly without any timeout and no more error messages. I guess then that it is really related to the compact flash card itself. Regards, ML
----- Original Message ----- From: Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> To: misc@openbsd.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 1:11 PM Subject: Re: wd0 timeout at boot On 11/15/11 04:45, ML mail wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Nexcom NSA-1083 network appliance as firewall which I recently > upgraded to OpenBSD 5.0 amd64 and am still having some delays during booting > because of wd0 timeout. As I was running OpenBSD 4.4 I was told this somehow > might disappear in later releases of OpenBSD but unfortunately it didn't. The > symptom is that the boot is delayed of about 2-3 minutes while it is waiting > on wd0. So at boot it gets stuck here: > > wd0(pciide0:0:0): timeout > > type: ata > c_bcount: 512 > c_skip: 0 > pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA > error: missing interrupt, status=0x21 > wd0c: device timeout reading fsbn 0 (wd0 > bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying > wd0(pciide0:0:0): timeout > type: ata ... [ note: no useful dmesg was snipped in this editing. :-/ ] ... > So I was wondering now if > there is a way to avoid this delay at booting? Would replacing the compact > flash card with another moderner one fix it? Or maybe does my BIOS need some > tweaking? > > Regards, > > ML Does this work for you? http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html#i386flash Certainly not a proper fix, but a way to avoid it... Nick.
