From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 13 06:05:42 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 4FFB516A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 06:05:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mout1.freenet.de (mout1.freenet.de [194.97.50.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF7C43D1F for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 06:05:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stevan.tiefert@freenet.de) Received: from [194.97.55.190] (helo=mx6.freenet.de) by mout1.freenet.de with asmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1BvVC8-00066w-L2 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:05:40 +0200 Received: from srbk-d9b99842.pool.mediaways.net ([217.185.152.66]) 4.41 #1) id 1BvVC8-00070e-1k for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:05:40 +0200 From: Stevan Tiefert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:59:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200408091110.40243.stevan.tiefert@freenet.de> <200408112125.16575.stevan.tiefert@freenet.de> <411BA4C1.6040000@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <411BA4C1.6040000@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408130759.14298.stevan.tiefert@freenet.de> 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: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 06:05:42 -0000 On Thursday 12 August 2004 19:11, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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. Hello Chuck, it is right, if you say that BIOSes provide switching between PIO0 to PIO4, but there is no way to control UDMA in a BIOS. Anyway, it doesn't matter, because every Operating System (without DOS) is taking control after the bootstrap over the hardware and even FreeBSD. If the kernel is taking control, switches have to take in the kernel described in the e-mail from Nathan at the loader prompt: set hw.ata.ata_dma="0" Bye Stevan Tiefert -- deltree /y c:\windows My suggestion to solve all your problems!