I've been getting these timeouts for some time on boot, but up till now when they appear they just slow the boot down. After cvsup on 4/2, I now sometimes get a couple of new messages which hang up the boot process: ... acd0: FAILURE - MODE_SENSE_BIG timed out acd0: FAILURE - ATAPI_Identity ... acd0: timeout state=0 unexpected (hangs here till hard reboot) Are there some tweaks to parameters to prevent this? Sam Sirlin I 'm running FreeBSD celeborn.my.domain 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Apr 2 17:48:39 PST 2005 sam@celeborn.my.domain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CELEBORN amd64 Here's an example of what used to happen, even with 5.4 up till 4/2: Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sun Nov 21 10:58:56 PST 2004 sam@celeborn.my.domain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CELEBORN ACPI APIC Table: <A M I OEMAPIC > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (2002.57-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0xf48 Stepping = 8 Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MM X,FXSR,SSE,SSE2> AMD Features=0xe0500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,LM,3DNow+,3DNow> real memory = 1072889856 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1024090112 (976 MB) ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 1 MADT: Forcing active-low polarity and level trigger for SCI ioapic0 <Version 0.3> irqs 0-23 on motherboard acpi0: <A M I OEMRSDT> on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached) fwohci0: <VIA Fire II (VT6306)> port 0xcc00-0xcc7f mem 0xf7900000-0xf79007ff irq 16 at device 7.0 on pc i0 fwohci0: OHCI version 1.0 (ROM=1) fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4. fwohci0: EUI64 00:e0:18:00:00:62:29:1b fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports. fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0 fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0 if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:e0:18:62:29:1b fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:e0:18:62:29:1b fwe0: if_start running deferred for Giant sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0 fwohci0: Initiate bus reset fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me) firewire0: bus manager 0 (me) skc0: <3Com 3C940 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xf7c00000-0xf7c03fff irq 17 at device 10.0 on pci0 skc0: 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940) sk0: <Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon> on skc0 sk0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:a6:74:6a:02 miibus0: <MII bus> on sk0 e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY> on miibus0 e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto pcm0: <Creative EMU10K1> port 0xec00-0xec1f irq 17 at device 12.0 on pci0 pcm0: <eMicro EM28028 AC97 Codec> atapci0: <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller> port 0xc800-0xc8ff,0xd000-0xd00f,0xd400-0xd403,0xd800-0xd807,0xe 000-0xe003,0xe400-0xe407 irq 20 at device 15.0 on pci0 ata2: channel #0 on atapci0 ata3: channel #1 on atapci0 atapci1: <VIA 8237 UDMA133 controller> port 0xfc00-0xfc0f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 15.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci1 ata1: channel #1 on atapci1 uhci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xb400-0xb41f irq 21 at device 16.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xb800-0xb81f irq 21 at device 16.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xc000-0xc01f irq 21 at device 16.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci3: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xc400-0xc41f irq 21 at device 16.3 on pci0 uhci3: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb3: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci3 usb3: USB revision 1.0 uhub3: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 16.4 (no driver attached) isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 17.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0 acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 sio1: type 16550A orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcefff on isa0 ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2002574586 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 0.976 msec ad0: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JB-00DUA0/65.13G65> [232581/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad1: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JB-00FUA0/15.05R15> [232581/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100 acd0: FAILURE - MODE_SENSE_BIG timed out acd0: FAILURE - MODE_SENSE_BIG timed out acd0: FAILURE - MODE_SENSE_BIG timed out acd0: FAILURE - MODE_SENSE_BIG timed out acd0: FAILURE - MODE_SENSE_BIG timed out acd0: CDROM <TDK DVDRW420N/1.39> at ata1-master UDMA33 acd0: FAILURE - TEST_UNIT_READY timed out acd0: FAILURE - PREVENT_ALLOW timed out acd0: FAILURE - TEST_UNIT_READY timed out acd0: FAILURE - TEST_UNIT_READY timed out acd0: FAILURE - PREVENT_ALLOW timed out acd0: FAILURE - TEST_UNIT_READY timed out acd0: FAILURE - PREVENT_ALLOW timed out acd0: FAILURE - TEST_UNIT_READY timed out acd0: FAILURE - TEST_UNIT_READY timed out acd0: FAILURE - PREVENT_ALLOW timed out acd0: FAILURE - TEST_UNIT_READY timed out acd0: FAILURE - PREVENT_ALLOW timed out acd0: FAILURE - TEST_UNIT_READY timed out acd0: FAILURE - TEST_UNIT_READY timed out acd0: FAILURE - PREVENT_ALLOW timed out Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a