Re: DragonFly and FBSD 5.1

[Tony Holmes <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> -On [20031027 17:52], Matthew Dillon (dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
>
> I get this:
>
> ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices ..
>
> and then it hangs, can't even CTRL-ALT-DEL it.

I had the same thing on a P4S533 mobo (SiS 651 chipset). There is a 
solution in the freebsd-hardware I'll summarize here for ease :)

In the boot loader:

set hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
set hw.ata.atapi_dma="0"

In /boot/loader.conf

hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
hw.ata.atapi_dma="0"