I am trying out BEAT2 on a machine here, installing onto a compact
flash card, but when I boot I get the error above. This is slightly
puzzling as the CF card is in an adapter which plugs directly into
the motherboard.
If I move the card to dangling off the end of a cable, the warning
goes away
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:44:31PM +0100, Pete French wrote:
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Is there a way to turn the test off
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Try setting the following in /boot/loader.conf:
hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin=0
You can see the description of this, and other tunables, in the ata(4)
man page.
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| Jeremy Chadwick
Try setting the following in /boot/loader.conf:
hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin=0
Now that looked promising, but unfortunately it doesnt help. Even
with this set I still get the same message. If this is supposed to
disbale the check (as it appears) then I am even more puzzled.
-pete.
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 06:13 pm, Pete French wrote:
Try setting the following in /boot/loader.conf:
hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin=0
Now that looked promising, but unfortunately it doesnt help. Even
with this set I still get the same message. If this is supposed to
disbale the check (as
hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin=0
Unfortunately this useful tunable is unavailable for 6.x.
Ahh, but this is 7.1-BETA2 on amd64 - it should be available there, yes ?
The manual page says it should work, and I have found the point in
the source code where it is supposed to interpret it. There are,
