Re: System still hangs with "ata1-master: TIMEOUT - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE"

On 1/29/2004 6:02 AM, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
>> Lefteris Chatzibarbas wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Devices are:
>>>
>>>   ad0: <WDC WD800JB-00ETA0/77.07W77> ATA-6 disk at ata0-master
>>>   acd0: <DV-516E/3.04> DVDROM drive at ata1 as master
>>>   acd1: <CD-W524E/1.0A> CDRW drive at ata1 as slave
>>>
>>> Verbose boot of a good kernel:
>>>
>>>   http://members.hellug.gr/lefcha/dmesg.out
>>>
>>> System still hangs during boot with the message:
>>>
>>>   ata1-master: TIMEOUT - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE retrying (0 
>>> retries left)
>>>
<snip>
>>>
>>>   http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-January/016880.html
>>>
>>> ... didn't correct the problem.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> "Me too".
>> Same controller, same hard disk, only one device on the second channel:
>> acd0: DVDROM <DVD-ROM DDU1621> at ata1-master UDMA33
>> I used 5.2-RELEASE and the -current snapshot form 24/1. The former 
>> freezes after the "TIMEOUT" message, the latter just locks up solid. 
>> The machine runs happily a -current from last October though.
> 
> 
> I found out that booting with "Safe mode" (I knew there should be some 
> use for it :-)) allows me to complete the process and get to sysinstall, 
> in both 5.2-RELEASE & the -current snapshot from 24/1. But I tried to do 
> the same from the loader prompt, to no avail. I used the following and 
> then "boot" or "boot -v" but every attempt resulted in the traditional 
> freeze.
> 
> unset acpi_load
> set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
> set loader.acpi_disabled_by_user=1
> set hw.ata.ata_dma=0
> set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0
> set hw.ata.wc=0
> set hw.eisa_slots=0
> 
>  From what I can tell from the beastie.4th file, that is all that should 
> be needed. Am I missing something?

You missed disabling apic:
set hint.apic.0.disabled=1

Jon Noack