Subject: DMA spinning down EIDE?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/31/1998 01:01:54
Hello,

I'm in the process (long!) of installing NetBSD-current on a friend's
new Celeron 333 with a 12.7GB Quantum Fireball.  Besides the fact that
sysinst truncates at 16383 cylinders, it seems that the IDE code is
having a problem with power management.  All of the power management 
stuff is disabled in the BIOS, yet the drive will spin down with a 
noticeable "clunk", and then any access hangs with:
	pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
		type: ata
		c_bcount: 8192
		c_skip: 0

And that is it.  I don't understand why the drive spins down, perhaps
it is doing this on it's own?  Any suggestions would be appreciated!

-Andrew
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