From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 1 02:27:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C9B1065670 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:27:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94FB8FC17 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:27:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id y2so686791uge.37 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:27:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=F/sgTCprCnO9W8tB+jvZrmR4C3Yhctz7GGcDMLCcMjI=; b=FKBfLpwN+2PAR1i36qOdrxg8SS8Z457uaGHgKKyQRpv11Q4jFXr08HHxpCS6X4ZY3rypp5ev5yYL7W31jqOxheOaEDuuQz8VY0J3iiVaomCwYrpfAq1H34HyIWLK161sQiuQLbtMaCg5inVGg8whCxNaTtG9mth1EKZ60LUijhg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=s/JBxwaTJ2kesAD6ocV2ONLcciuG/OQBxU4M0dzFdj/jGq5UV8nWptD27/JM1ofjQuqVsXlyq5rYh5Qms+HJgZ6v0j6nRf71QPHVyaj8pPqEw4u4sX38390Lp5Xzfp0yvGsALVx3qeRlyqjxb5hZPThnCZY6ergdksUr8YYBuno= Received: by 10.66.240.12 with SMTP id n12mr2582586ugh.9.1204338442833; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:27:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.219.18 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:27:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0802291827o27e128c6pb144e6db1653507b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:27:22 +0000 From: Chris To: "Stephen Hurd" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ross Penner Subject: Re: ad0 READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors on install of 7.0-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:27:24 -0000 On 29/02/2008, Stephen Hurd wrote: > > last night. It's a MiniITX board, model EN1200. My system can't remain > > up for more than 10minutes before something locks it up and frequently > > the screen will output error messages relating to DMA. > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ Does that workaround work when the disks are sata? Chris