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On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 07:52:00PM +0100, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> motherboard ASUS P5A rev 1.06 (Ali chipset)
> processor Amd K6-III/400MHz
> 64MB SDRAM Samsung GH
> disk IDE IBM 7200rpm 9GB
> cdrom IDE NEC 16x
> 
> >Description:
> 
> The machine is unbelievably slow.  `tail /var/log/messages' or `ls /etc'
> take 10 seconds or more.  A hint about the cause is in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Jan 12 19:34:56 luxemburg /netbsd: wd0e: DMA error reading fsbn 180816 of 180816-180847 (wd0 bn 3072768; cn 3048 tn 6 sn 6), retrying

I'd like to collect more infos about this problem.
Could everyone with a Ali based motherboard send back to me and
gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org, with
Subject: Re: kern/9178: DMA error reading fsbn NNNN
(so that gnats records it):
- type of motherboard
- dmesg
- whenever you had the "DMA error" problem or not with a GENERIC kernel
  (or custom kernel, but with pciide and wd without flags)
- if you had the problem, whenever using flags to force Ultra-DMA mode 1 helped

thanks !


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