On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 03:07:06AM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Am Dienstag, 28. September 2004 18:36 schrieb Kris Kennaway: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:15:54PM -0400, bsdfsse wrote: > > > I am getting "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" messages on my ad2 and ad3 > > > hard-drives. I never get them on ad0 or the CD drive. I did some > > > searching, and it sounds like I need to turn of "preemption" in the > > > kernel. I'm running 5.3-BETA4 on the computer. > > > > > > I am going to guess this is turned on for the beta-testing. > > > > > > Any ideas? I just started running 5.x last night. %-) > > > > Update to the latest beta, which has a fixed ata driver. > > Kris > > Right, but I'd also like to know how I can turn it off. Just for curiosity.
Don't include the PREEMPTION kernel config option (it's off by default). Kris
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