Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:38:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Kedar Sovani <kedarsovani@yahoo.com> To: Stephen Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org>, Kedar Sovani <kedarsovani@yahoo.com>, Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: strange error Message-ID: <20010913083853.66773.qmail@web11308.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <NFBBJPHLGLNJEEECOCHACENFCCAA.deuce@lordlegacy.org>
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Hi,
My system faces the problems while installing
itself, so it doesnt't boot. Also i tried for the
kernel configuration, but the flags for the ata device
are already 0x00. Also the same hard-disk works for
other machines.
The problem persists:(
kedar.
--- Stephen Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> wrote:
> > I tried changing the cables, changing options
> from
> > the BIOS, for DMA, PIO and their modes but nothing
> > helped.
>
> Try using a sysctl to change to pio... the BIOS is
> not used by FreeBSD except
> to actually load the kernel. However, when there's
> a problem with a DMA
> transfer, it's supposed to automatically fall back
> to pio mode.
>
> sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio
>
> If that helps, add the line:
> hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio
> to /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> That'll work if the system will at least boot.
> if it won't even get that far (or at least not
> without you falling asleep for
> a few hours)
> Try setting the flags for the ata device to 0x0000 -
> at least I THINK it's
> 0000 to disable DMA, it may be 0001... set it to
> whatever it isn't. :-)
>
> On the other hand, the drive could actually be bad,
> just in a strange way...
> one that doesn't actually bother a different OS...
> FreeBSD is pretty picky
> about hardware working properly. Windows often
> isn't.
>
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