It seems Pete Carah wrote: >ASUS P5A or P5AB (one of each now) - won't boot without setting >hw.ata.ata_dma=0. GEOM recognizes the drive itself but then the reads >of the disklabels fail with a message that I can't find in the source, >about a DMA failure. System then prompts to mount root and nothing I >type works. I see looking at the list archive that I'm not the only >one with this problem. The message appears 3 times per drive with some >seconds between, implying to me that it is (at least) a missing interrupt >(or completely missing operation?).
I'm aware of the problem, I dont know why it happens though. I do have a P5A somewhere in the attic, I'll give it a go as soon as I get the time... -Søren _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
