On Friday 30 May 2003 01:54 am, Rich Morin wrote: > At 9:40 PM -0400 5/29/03, Jud wrote: > >This was a common problem along about 4.5-4.6. Upgrade to at least > >4.7, see if it helps; the cause of the common problem was fixed in > >4.7- prerelease. > > I've been running "FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE" on my production system, so I > tried moving the disks over and booting. Same problem. > > One message I found on eht web indicated that I might be able to get > past the problem by disabling UltraDMA. Unfortunately: > > * There isn't any obvious way to do this in the AMIBIOS. > > * Setting hw.ata.ata_dma to 0 in /etc/sysctl.conf won't help, > because (from sysctl.conf(5)): > > The /etc/sysctl.conf file is read in when the system goes > into multi-user mode ... > > and the problem asserts itself while the system is still in > single-user mode. > > So, I decided to change line 90 of /usr/src/sys/dev/ataata-disk.c to: > > static int ata_dma = 0; > > This allowed the system to boot without (apparent) error, but I'd > still like to boot off a PCI-based ATA card, instead. >
Did you try doing it in /boot/loader.conf. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
