Stephane Lapie wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently working with a Portwell NAR-5530 (network appliance > running off Intel hardware, can use regular HDs or CF cards as boot > device). > > We want to use this at work for network appliances, but end up > bumping in the following problem : the kernel detects any device > plugged to the controller (SATA or CF) as UltraDMA-5, even though the > BIOS specifies otherwise clearly.
You definitely should try to install recent snapshot on a CF card and boot GENERIC.MP with APM disabled since that box may mis-behave on interrupts without APCI. Issue "bsd.mp -c" in UKC than "disable apm" and "exit". Alexey