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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
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Subject: Re: Hard Disk Problem
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:03:08 -0500
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On Sunday 10 February 2002 07:52 pm, gerald.mixa@web.de wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am New to FreeBSD and I have installed freebsd 4.5 now on my old p2. I
> have got problems with my harddisk no1 (write timout). This disk does not
> support dma, but freebsd allways boots it in dma mode. Hard disk no2 is
> capable to do dma and works fine! Now My question: How can I tell freebsd
> to do pio mode on disk 1 permanentley?
> boot options? recompile kernel?

Boot option.

/boot/loader.conf:
hw.ata.ata_dma=0

I think that this can be done from the interactive configuration screen as 
well, but I can't even remember how to bring that up.  Anyway, this works.


>
> Sincerley
>
> Gerald Mixa
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