From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 1 12:11:30 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 427DA106566B for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:11:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.10.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A84688FC12 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:11:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from westmark (westmark.nagual.nl [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.nl (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/yanta) with ESMTP id m21CBSug005634 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:11:28 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:12:03 +0100 From: Dick Hoogendijk To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080301131203.00001e51@westmark> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-pc-solaris2.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 192.168.11.35 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 12:11:30 -0000 On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:39:11 -0800 Stephen Hurd 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? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++