From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 11 22:57:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragonstar.dhs.org (cc862238-a.nwhub1.in.home.com [24.22.251.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B7237B403 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonsmith@dragonstar.dhs.org) Received: from localhost (jonsmith@localhost) by dragonstar.dhs.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5C5vUM00904; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 00:57:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jonsmith@dragonstar.dhs.org) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 00:57:30 -0500 (EST) From: Jonathan Smith To: John Hay Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UDMA interfering with install In-Reply-To: <200106120550.f5C5oXP85193@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's good enough. :) Thanks.... Maybe _that_ will keep that ata code from over-riding the bios to disable dma (or maybe the bios just wasn't doing it's job right ;) j. -- When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance -- I Hope You Dance, Lee Ann Womack Jon C.: [Microsoft] pops up all over the place Jon S.: Like a Virus -- From an online discussion one night Jon Smith On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, John Hay wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:50:33 +0200 (SAT) > From: John Hay > To: Jonathan Smith > Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: UDMA interfering with install > > > > > Unfortunately, the UDMA chipset on my ASUS P5A doesn't work well with > > Western Vegetable drives.... So, I need to forcibly sysctl it into pio > > mode. Is there *any* way to do this from sysinstall on the > > 5.0-200105250-CURRENT (or later snap on current.freebsd.org) floppy > > bootup? > > Well I don't know of a way to do it in sysinstall, but here is the way > I did it a few days ago: > > Boot your machine with the install floppies and when it gives the message: > > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. > > press any other key to get to the loader prompt. Then type: > > set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 > boot > > Then just go through the normal installation procedure. When you are > finished with the installation and the machine reboots, break at the > loader prompt again and do the same thing. After that login and add > the next line to /boot/loader.conf > > hw.ata.ata_dma=0 > > Now you should be set. :-) > > John > -- > John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message