Frebsd 7-STABLE, atapicd, atapicam and Intel errors [SOLVED]

[Jan Sebosik]

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> Okay now I understand.  Thank you for taking the time to explain!  :-)
>
> And when you disable HPET in the BIOS, what happens?
>
>> Maybe I should try -CURRENT sometimes with your proposed ata patches 
>> (or  are they merged in right now?).
>
> Sure, you're free to try CURRENT.  The ATA code on CURRENT was
> modularised, and also a very large patch applied; I can't promise it
> fixes your CD/DVD drive issues though.
>
> I had problems getting CURRENT to see my PCI SATA Promise controller (it
> wasn't appearing in pciconf -lv, nor dmesg), but I had no problems with
> CURRENT seeing my ICH7 controller.  I also had other problems with
> CURRENT which caused me to go back to RELENG_7.  CURRENT is undergoing
> lots of changes right now, so I recommend subscribing to -current if you
> plan on running it.
>
> I personally haven't written any ATA patches, except for extending
> atacontrol to support per-disk write cache enable/disable.  I think
> you might be confusing me with Andrey V. Elsukov, who *has* written
> lots of ATA stuff.


Now happens almost nothing (I don`t understand), except the cd/acd
problems (READ_BIG errors), but I don`t understand why it is happening..
maybe guys from Intel optimized this board too much for twista OS :).

Wishing all the best
-- 
Jan Sebosik, Slovakia
sebosik at demax.sk