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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: How do I turn off "preemption" (getting "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA")
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:15:54PM -0400, bsdfsse wrote:
>=20
> I am getting "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" messages on my ad2 and ad3=20
> hard-drives.  I never get them on ad0 or the CD drive.  I did some=20
> searching, and it sounds like I need to turn of "preemption" in the=20
> kernel.  I'm running 5.3-BETA4 on the computer.
>=20
> I am going to guess this is turned on for the beta-testing.
>=20
> Any ideas?  I just started running 5.x last night.  %-)

Update to the latest beta, which has a fixed ata driver.
Kris

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