Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:07:36 -0800 From: Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ad0 READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors on install of 7.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <47C9A978.4090501@sasktel.net> In-Reply-To: <20080301131203.00001e51@westmark> References: <d582d87b7f8c.47c8271f@sasktel.net> <20080301131203.00001e51@westmark>
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Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:39:11 -0800 > Stephen Hurd <hurds@sasktel.net> wrote: > >> As a workaround, adding the line: >> hw.ata.ata_dma="0" >> To /boot/loader.conf will disable DMA and prevent the hangs that are >> caused by the DMA timeouts. >> > > Yeah, but having dma=1 makes the system faster, doesn't it? > It would if it worked, yes. But given a choice between fast and broken and slow and working, I find the decision pretty simple. :-)
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