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From: Kedar Sovani <kedarsovani@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: strange error
To: Stephen Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org>,
	Kedar Sovani <kedarsovani@yahoo.com>, Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de>
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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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