>DanGer wrote: >[...] >> >> >> i have the same issue on brand new 200gb ata maxtor hard drive. i had >> the same issue on 5.2.1, but when i upgraded to 5.3 i decided to turn on >> ata dma but after 9 days of uptime it froze..no logs, whatever...so i >> turned ata dma off for now, and i will stay and watch what will happen.. > >That's very helpful, thank you. The behaviour you describe - machine >freezing - is exactly what I have experienced. I'm feeling vaguely >optimistic now :-) > >> >> but there should be some other fix, because i don't want to keep my >> disc in pio mode :/ > >Absolutely. But I guess, since I'm not going to try to produce a fix >myself, I can't whinge too loudly. A workaround is what I need right now >and I hope you've confirmed that this is one. > >Peter.
have you had any luck yet? i've disabled DMA at a bios level, but it seems to make no discernable difference. and the installation still fails... have the IDE drivers changed between 4.10 and 5.3? much thanks, --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
