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Date:      Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:50:48 -0700
From:      "Jonas" <jonas@netwood.net>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: IBM 120 G IDE -- problems
Message-ID:  <003301c375bc$6465a3f0$0800a8c0@master>
In-Reply-To: <20030908033533.GB47926@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>

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OH MAN...... You don't know how many hours you just saved me!!! It boots
up beautifully with 3 drives.

Thank you!!!!

For future reference, do you know why this happens?

Jonas Fornander - System Administrator
Netwood Communications,LLC - www.netwood.net
Find out why we're better - 310-442-1530
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Birrell [mailto:jb@cimlogic.com.au]=20
> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 8:36 PM
> To: Jonas
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: IBM 120 G IDE -- problems
>=20
>=20
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 08:27:18PM -0700, Jonas wrote:
> >=20
> > I have the exact same problem with two brand new MB's from Asus. The
> > model is P4P800 and P4P800-VM and all the drives are brand=20
> new Seagate
> > IDE drives. I have removed the CD-ROM drive and the box=20
> boots up fine
> > with Primary and Secondary master but as soon as I add a=20
> 3rd drive the
> > boot process hangs on ata0 (or ata1) "Resetting=20
> devices....". Changing
> > the drive to Cable-Select or putting the slave at the end=20
> of the cable
> > doesn't fix the problem either.
>=20
> I have that problem with an ASUS P4S533 motherboard. I add=20
> these sysctl
> values to /boot/loader.conf:
>=20
> hw.ata.ata_dma=3D"0"
> hw.ata.atapi_dma=3D"0"
>=20
> You can also interrupt the boot loader and type:
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> set hw.ata.ata_dma=3D"0"
> set hw.ata.atapi_dma=3D"0"
> boot
>=20
> --=20
> John Birrell
>=20



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