On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:43:30AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 08:32:07AM +0100, Gianni wrote: > > On 22/mar/08, at 04:52, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 06:27:19PM +0100, Gianni Doe wrote: > >>> I'm also experiencing this issue after upgrading to 7.0-RELEASE from 6.3 > >> The most I can provide is here: > >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues > > > >> Workaround: Set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 in /boot/loader.conf. This will disable > >> use of DMA in the ATA/SATA subsystem; > > > > I'm afraid the workaround doesn't work for me, I set hw.ata.ata_dma="0" in > > loader.conf and the problem still occurs. > > Just to double-check... > > # sysctl hw.ata.ata_dma > > hw.ata.ata_dma: 0 > > Are you using PATA or SATA disks?
I re-read your mail -- sorry. You're using SATA. I'll update my Wiki page to state that the loader.conf DMA disable trick only works for PATA. In the interim, I recommend you contact Scott Long, especially if your problem is easily repeatable. He's offered to help track this down. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
