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On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 19:34 -0700, Nathan wrote:
> I've read a lot about the "BTX halted" issue in the archives and have
> found many related topics pointing to the same fix: I need to change
> the ATA devices to use simple DMA or PIO instead of Ultra DMA.
> Unfortunately, I'm unable to find anything related to "DMA" in my
> bios. The BIOS is Phoenix - AwardBIOS

What version of FreeBSD are you using?  This should have been fixed, and
hopefully you'll be able to boot a recent 8-CURRENT (or indeed
7.1-PRERELEASE) snapshot:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200809/

Gavin