From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 29 13:40:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 0A05216A492 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:40:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johns@newebmail.com) Received: from newebmail.com (www.newebmail.com [68.164.219.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B2943D76 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:40:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from johns@newebmail.com) Received: from WorldClient by attleboroyouthbasketball.com (MDaemon.PRO.v8.1.3.R) with ESMTP id md50002393021.msg for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:35:39 -0400 Received: from [66.92.66.128] via WorldClient with HTTP; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:35:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:35:26 -0400 From: "John Soderberg" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Message-ID: X-Mailer: WorldClient 8.1.3 X-Authenticated-Sender: johns@newebmail.com X-Return-Path: johns@newebmail.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) X-Spam-Report: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=6.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Processed: newebmail.com, Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:35:45 -0400 X-MDAV-Processed: newebmail.com, Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:35:46 -0400 Subject: hasbrokenint12=1 AND ata.ata_dma=0 -- no, these are real bad for me X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:40:57 -0000 I have some blades (from Advent, who by the way, could have been more helpful.) When I got them second-hand, they ran Linux. Which I gladly wiped out. I can only run FreeBSD. Nothing else will work for me. But in order to boot these boxes up I have to do an option #6 at the boot-loader prompt, and use 'set'; You probably know the drill. The thing is, my application is not feasible this way. I need another solution. I tried getting SCSI controllers and disks (and was willing to just use SCSI in place of DMA) but I discovered that I can't boot these blades with a SCSI controller in place. Don't know why, but the machines hang. I really need help from someone who has dealt with these problems and solved them. Now, with an IDE drive, I say: "set hw.hasbrokenint12=1 AND set hw.ata.ata_dma=0" (Of course, once I am up, I put these commands in /boot/loader.conf) and at least, this will make the systems work; But so slowly as to be effectively unusable. For example, FTP transfers operate at about 1MB per second and a same-disk disk copy of a 20GB file took seven hours. And while the copy was happening, the keyboard was hung. Completely. If someone knows how to solve these problems, I await your wisdom!