Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:09:15 -0400 From: Jim Durham <durham@jcdurham.com> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx>, Steve Warwick <ukla@attbi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oops! rc.conf mistake Message-ID: <3DB6BB9B.7020702@jcdurham.com> References: <B9DA4A89.3A34%ukla@attbi.com> <3.0.5.32.20021023073055.00e357f8@mail.sage-one.net>
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Jack L. Stone wrote: > At 09:28 AM 10.23.2002 +0200, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > >>Steve Warwick wrote: >> >>>Hey all, >>> >>>I wonder if anyone can tell me how to get out of this stupid mistake. >>> >>>I edited rc.conf to add a virtual interface and left a quote off the end >>>(unterminated string) - now I cannot get past mounting root, so no editors. >>>And before you ask, no, I did not backup rc.conf... I told you it was >>>stupid. >>> >>>BTW: I noticed that ad0 is "limited to UDMA33" - I have UDMA133 motherboard >>>and drive so, I this really true? >>> >>> >>>TIA, >>> >>>Steve >>> >> >>Since other have answered the rc.conf question, I give the "limited to >>UDMA33" a shot. >>Are you using a UDMA133 cable? I cant recall the UDMA133 specs, but I >>know UDMA66 and 100 use a different cable then UDMA33. UDMA133 might >>use the same cable as 66 and 100, but Im certain a 33 cable would >>force the drive to be UDMA33 only, even if both drive and controller >>is capable of UDMA133. >>It might also be a BIOS issue, check your settings. >> >>-- >>R >> > > > I have noticed that some CD-ROM drives will make the system think it is on > a non-compliant cable or UDMA33. For instance, this from dmesg on one > machine with an older CD_ROM drive. > > "ata1-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable" If I change > to a newer CD player, it's okay. > > Best regards, > Jack L. Stone, > Administrator > > SageOne Net > http://www.sage-one.net > jackstone@sage-one.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message This may sound wierd, but I had this problem when I had the hard drives on the 2nd IDE interface and the CD on the 1st IDE interface. Reversing the cables and changing /etc/fstab fixed the problem. This was on an A-Open motherboard. -Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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