From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 12 17:11:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCC4416A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:11:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out001.verizon.net (out001pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5421743D1D for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:11:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.161.136.200]) by out001.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040812171131.XUED24594.out001.verizon.net@[192.168.1.3]>; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:11:31 -0500 Message-ID: <411BA4C1.6040000@mac.com> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:11:29 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stevan Tiefert , freebsd Questions References: <200408091110.40243.stevan.tiefert@freenet.de> <8c98f4de040811074648ca74fe@mail.gmail.com> <200408111455.I7BETRGS027141@asarian-host.net> <200408112125.16575.stevan.tiefert@freenet.de> In-Reply-To: <200408112125.16575.stevan.tiefert@freenet.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out001.verizon.net from [68.161.136.200] at Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:11:31 -0500 Subject: Re: How to disable UDMA for HDD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:11:32 -0000 Stevan Tiefert wrote: [ ... ] > you did not understood what I wanted. I needed a suggestion how to install > FreeBSD without UDMA-support. Your suggestion is only useful if the system is > running, but that was not the case! What happens if you configure the BIOS of the system not to use UDMA modes for that device? Most BIOSes will let you control individual devices, so set whatever it is to PIO4; otherwise, disable UDMA for everything long enough to complete the install, and then tweak things from there. -- -Chuck