Re: Same ad0 timeout with new ISO

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :I thought the same thing, until I bought another off ebay and reinstalled
> :FBSD on the drive in question without a hitch.  It's a laptop, so no loose
> :cables or such.
> :
> :jm
>
>     Yah, I'm fairly sure it isn't your hard drive.  Our best bet at fixing
>     it is going to be if Hiten can reliably reproduce the timeout issue
>     under VMWare-4 that he reported in early March when this first came up.
>     That's a smoking gun.  The question, though, is what is causing it?

	Here's a guess... it might be interesting to see what happens if
	we increase the DELAY() & timeout in ata_lowlevel.c::ata_wait()?

		-Hiten
		hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx