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Date:      Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:03:52 -0300 (BRT)
From:      "Nenhum_de_Nos" <matheus@eternamente.info>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ata and seagate microdrive problems
Message-ID:  <4c84392f51488148040ecc5e99c9971b.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904111222560.27000@lightning.wonkity.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904111222560.27000@lightning.wonkity.com>

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On Sat, April 11, 2009 15:29, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, April 9, 2009 19:48, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to install current on via itx using ide 44pin to cf
>> adapter and a seagate 8GB microdrive.
>>
>> I thought it was to be ok, but just today when I received the adapter
>> I got nowhere in this. I tried 7.1-STABLE and 8.0-CURRENT from
>> 200902, and both fail to find it. the same thing in 7.1R.
>
> "Fail to find it" is a little vague.  Is the CF card detected by the
> BIOS?

my bad, I forgot to say that. bios finds ok, I can install OpenBSD on it
no problem.

> Many CF-to-IDE adapters don't support DMA:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-small/2005-July/000441.html
>
> Lack of DMA support in the adapter results in errors, lots of them,
> after the kernel boots.  Disabling DMA as above fixed that on a 2G CF
> card and CF-to-IDE adapter for me.

I dit that. on 7.1R, and snapshots from stable and current from 200902.
also tried hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin=0 on all, nothing.

thanks for your input :)

matheus

> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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