Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 14:27:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: Pete Carah <pete@ns.altadena.net> Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAng vs Aladdin chipset Message-ID: <200309141227.h8ECRXEa006823@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <200309141003.h8EA3OfB099272@ns.altadena.net>
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It seems Pete Carah wrote: >ASUS P5A or P5AB (one of each now) - won't boot without setting >hw.ata.ata_dma=0. GEOM recognizes the drive itself but then the reads >of the disklabels fail with a message that I can't find in the source, >about a DMA failure. System then prompts to mount root and nothing I >type works. I see looking at the list archive that I'm not the only >one with this problem. The message appears 3 times per drive with some >seconds between, implying to me that it is (at least) a missing interrupt >(or completely missing operation?). I'm aware of the problem, I dont know why it happens though. I do have a P5A somewhere in the attic, I'll give it a go as soon as I get the time... -Søren
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