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
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