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Date:      Tue, 28 Dec 1999 21:55:41 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        dgilbert@velocet.ca (David Gilbert)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to de-select DMA to ad0?
Message-ID:  <199912282055.VAA49015@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <14439.54923.884773.393442@trooper.velocet.net> from David Gilbert at "Dec 27, 1999 04:13:47 pm"

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It seems David Gilbert wrote:
> I've had my share of problems with this drive's DMA abilities.  I'm
> convinced that it has none... even though it probes as such.
> 
> ad0: <NEC Coporation DSE2550A/5DE0314> ATA-0 disk at ata0 as master
> ad0: ...
> ad0: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, DMA
> 
> now... when I boot -v, I don't have a chance to write down what it
> says, but it will hang every time with the following output:
> 
> ad0: ad-timeout: lost disk contact
> ata0: resetting drives -- mask=03 status0=50 status1=50 ..
> 
> And that's it.  It never prints out "done" which I see in many of the
> list messages.  Is there a way of disabling DMA on a specific drive?
> I read a bit of the source, but didn't find any obvious documentation
> on the issue.

There is no way (yet) other than hacking the code, but I'm working on it...

-Søren


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