From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 8 6: 0:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.student.utwente.nl (cal30b054.student.utwente.nl [130.89.229.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC285158F9 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 06:00:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl) Received: by phoenix.student.utwente.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8A549183; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 15:00:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phoenix.student.utwente.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8120E182; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 15:00:26 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 15:00:26 +0100 (CET) From: Theo van Klaveren X-Sender: havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl To: Soren Schmidt Cc: Theo van Klaveren , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA driver timeout In-Reply-To: <200001081356.OAA56905@freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: > > > > That helps me, but if I'm not mistaken it also disabled UDMA33 on the > > second drive. > > Yup, it was more to determine is DMA really was your problem... It was :) > > > > That'd be really nice, though if the kernel doesn't even boot to single > > user mode, I don't see how this would help users with this problem, as > > you'd have to do it before reboot. > > The idea is to boot in non-DMA mode, and then have a script setup > the wanted modes from etc/rc*. That way you can always boot into > singleuser mode and change the access modes... > Ah, that'd be very cool. Thinking of it, wouldn't FreeBSD be the only OS around that could switch DMA modes on the fly? ;-) /^\ | Theo van Klaveren /^\\_//^\ | http://phoenix.student.utwente.nl ICQ #1353681 \_/-|-\_/ | / | This email was powered by FreeBSD `He's the mad scientist, and I'm his beautiful daughter.' - opening sentence from Heinlein's 'The number of the beast' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message