Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:11:50 +1000 (EST) From: Warren Toomey <wkt@cs.adfa.edu.au> To: tsikora@powerusersbbs.com Cc: wkt@cs.adfa.edu.au, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Motherboard and ATA Questions Message-ID: <200004130011.KAA06817@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <38F50F8E.B943BC84@home.com> from Ted Sikora at "Apr 12, 2000 8: 6:38 pm"
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In article by Ted Sikora: > Warren Toomey wrote: > > > > In article by Stephen Montgomery-Smith: > > > I was thinking about buying myself an EPOX EP-7KXA motherboard > > > with the VIA Apollo KX133 chipset. But I read that VIA Apollo > > > chipsets have some problems with FreeBSD 4.0. > > > > > > Does anyone have any experience with this particular chipset? > > > > Yep, you definitely need /sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio. > > Put this right at the top of /etc/rc, and also in /.profile for > > when you boot in single-user mode. > > > > This is for UDMA66 right? > > Just uncommenting: > options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering > options ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA #Enable DMA on ATAPI devices > > for a kernel puts UDMA33 on for me. The patch I described fixes a specific problem with DMA use on the VIA Apollo IDE chipset, i.e atapci0: <VIA 82C596B ATA66 controller>. The workaround until you apply the patch is to disable DMA and use PIO. I wasn't talking about UDMA33 or UDMA66. Apologies for any confusion. Warren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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