Re: ata strangeness while doing newfs

[Tomaž Borštnar <tomaz.borstnar@xxxxxxxx>]

Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if somebody has some directions for me.
> I added a 40GB hd and while doing newfs on a partition I get a couple of:
> ad3: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> ata1: resetting devices .. done
>
> and then:
> ad3: trying fallback to PIO mode
> ata1: resetting device .. done
> ad3: timeout waiting for DRQ - resetting

configure disks in PIO mode? Perhaps you have buggy chipset for DMA modes?