Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 02:10:43 +0400 From: Grigoriy Strokin <grg@philol.msu.ru> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Audio record problems in 4.0-STABLE: 1. Creative ViBRA16X Message-ID: <20000331021043.A3912@isabase.philol.msu.ru> In-Reply-To: <20000331020541.A3613@isabase.philol.msu.ru>; from grg@philol.msu.ru on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:05:42AM %2B0400 References: <20000326200211.A6863@isabase.philol.msu.ru> <20000331020541.A3613@isabase.philol.msu.ru>
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:05:42AM +0400, Grigoriy Strokin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While the bug wiping out filesystems on machines with Apollo MVP3 when ATA
> driver is in UDMA mode is being fixed, I suppose there at least should be some
> note added to /usr/src/UPDATING, so that another users do not loss
> all their data and have to reinitialize /usr and restore it from backup, as I
> had to do?
>
> Something like that:
>
> If you use the Apollo MVP3 chipset, it is STRONGLY
> recommended that you disable the use of DMA mode in ATA drivers
> BEFORE you try to boot the system after `make installworld'.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
should be `make installkernel'
> Add the following line:
> /sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio
> to the very beginning of your /etc/rc,
> ~root/.profile and ~root/.login.
> Be warned that if you don't disable the DMA mode,
> all your filesystems may be corrupted because
> of a bug in the driver that is still being fixed.
>
--
=== Grigoriy Strokin, Lomonosov University (MGU), Moscow ===
=== contact info: http://isabase.philol.msu.ru/~grg/ ===
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