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Date:      Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:34:34 +0200
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_Ankerst=E5l?= <PETER@PEAN.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Disable DMA.
Message-ID:  <4F36D0DA.4050208@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <mailpost.1328985856.6443596.12476.mailing.freebsd.stable@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw>
References:  <mailpost.1328985856.6443596.12476.mailing.freebsd.stable@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw>

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On 02/11/12 20:15, Peter Ankerstål wrote:
> In FreeBSD 8 i used the loader-variable hw.ata.ata_dma=0 to get my computer boot on a CF card. But
> in FreeBSD 9.0 it doesn't seem to work. Could it be another variable or is it something else that doesn't work
> in 9? The machine boots up the installer when the CF-card is not present but when it is present it stops right
> after the "Timecounter" stuff.

On 9.0 you can to it with
hint.ata.X.mode=PIO4
, where X is a bus number.

In recent 8/9-STABLE I've also resurrected hw.ata.ata_dma=0.

-- 
Alexander Motin



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