From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 8 6:25: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 352A715542 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 06:24:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 11vi16-0005d3-00; Wed, 08 Dec 1999 16:24:28 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Tom Embt Cc: Joe Park , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hard drive crash...please help In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Dec 1999 09:22:49 EST." <3.0.3.32.19991208092249.0135e8b0@mail.embt.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 16:24:28 +0200 Message-ID: <21640.944663068@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 08 Dec 1999 09:22:49 EST, Tom Embt wrote: > FWIW, I've had that message before. I think it's caused when I enable DMA > on my AOpen AP58 motherboard (some SiS chipset, I forget what). Machine is > 3.3-STABLE; I just assumed that there was some problem/lack of support with > the SiS chipset, disabled DMA, and left it at that. (Performance was not > really important) Given that Joe says he has already removed flags from his kernel config (thus disabling DMA), I'd say that it must be a cabling problem -- unless of course he changed his kernel config without actually compiling, installing and booting the new kernel. ;-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message