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 no
Well, I misspoke on the timer; the one that works is booting in non-acpi
mode by "beastie"s choice; the older one still fails if I comment the acpi
ignore timer statement. Actually that one appears to run slow by about half.
Both fail equally in ATAng so acpi isn't making any difference (nor doe
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 look