>> that indeed solved the init freeze problem. >> >> this should be in the docs!!! it would have saved me 12 hours of >> reboot/reinstall problems. > >This has been repeated mantra-like again and again on c.o.l.powerpc so I'm >amazed owners of newworld machines still haven't gotten the message. > >Nothing wrong with putting it into the documentation (except someone has >to do it, and debian-powerpc didn't exactly seem overstaffed), but the >information has been out there, just look around.
This is not a pefect solution since it disables DMA completely on the drive. Those CMD646 controllers are hell... Ben.
