Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 08:21:56 -0400 From: "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "Peter Ulrich Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problems with UDMA harddisks Message-ID: <1088770916.21143.199618251@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20040702080837.S17792@pukruppa.net> References: <20040702080837.S17792@pukruppa.net>
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On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 08:28:12 +0200 (CEST), "Peter Ulrich Kruppa"
<root@pukruppa.de> said:
> Hi!
>
> I hope somebody on this list has another good idea, I haven't
> thought of yet:
>
> I have a machine that came with two Excel Stor 40 GB ("Ganymede")
> UDMA/100 harddisks.
> To install FreeBSD 4.10 I had to disable UDMA in the BIOS,
> otherwise they wouldn't have booted (some complaint about ata0).
> Of course I wish to get UDMA working, since this is said to
> improve perfomance significantly.
> I checked if the UDMA cable is plugged into the correct places
> for mainboard, master and slave - this is o.k. .
>
> Are there any other things (bios settings, kernel modules, magic
> chants,...) I could try?
I've been using DragonFly so I am not absolutely certain 4.10 still uses
/boot/loader.conf, but if it does, then inserting the following line in
that file may help:
hw.ata.ata_dma="1"
Jud
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