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From: Jason Barnes <jbarnes@c3po.barnesos.net>
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> > 	Then what's the safe mode in the boot screen in 5.2.1, and how is
> > it different than single user mode?  Thanks for your patience with me on
> > this issue.
>
> AFAIK, among others doesn't set DMA disk  access.
> syctl:
> hw.ata.ata_dma=0
> hw.ata.atapi_dma=0

	This seems to have fixed the problem, it must have been a DMA
conflict in some way.  Thank you so much for your help!

				- Jason Barnes