> Western Digital Caviar hard drives that should support UDMA/33, as should
> the Chipset.
>
> Both boot up, trying UDMA mode, throwing ICRC READ ERROR's then kick back
> down to PIO mode 4.
> Bios's are set to do auto-chose pio/dma modes.
There may be a BIOS option that will disable DMA entirely.
> I've resolved to simply adding in the rc to reset them to pio mode, to get
> it over with (but I still get the errors at boot-up prior to the rc doing
> them).
>
> I simply use 'device ata' etc. forms in the knerel config.
You might try commenting out this option (if you're using it):
options ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA #Enable DMA on ATAPI devices
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