Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:18:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Edmar Wiggers <edmarw@yahoo.com> To: sheldonh@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, sos@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/21072: Unable to install. Can't write disklabel to ad0 (ata disk0, udma33) Message-ID: <20000912161839.2158.qmail@web701.mail.yahoo.com>
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I agree: the system should either start in PIO mode, or have a kernel configuration variable (settable interactively via boot loader) to choose PIO/DMA. Note that if you start your system in PIO mode, itīs easy to change it do DMA using rc.sysctl (sysctl -w hw.atamodes=dma...) However, please note that the obsolete wd driver does use DMA in my system (I configured it that way), and it is ok with it. --- sheldonh@FreeBSD.org wrote: > Synopsis: Unable to install. Can't write disklabel > to ad0 (ata disk0, udma33) > > State-Changed-From-To: feedback->open > State-Changed-By: sheldonh > State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 12 01:33:11 PDT 2000 > State-Changed-Why: > Soren, here's another case that makes it sound like > it'd > be better to start the system off in PIO mode, > although > I seem to remember you saying that this came with > its own > set of problems. > > Perhaps there's some way to pass PIO/DMA mode > configs to > the kernel via the boot loader? > > Anyway, it's an interesting PR. :-) > > > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->sos > Responsible-Changed-By: sheldonh > Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Sep 12 01:33:11 PDT > 2000 > Responsible-Changed-Why: > Over to maintainer. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21072 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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