Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:24:35 +0900 From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: hw.ata.ata_dma="0": can I do this during bootup at the loader prompt? Message-ID: <41B7E193.4090807@yahoo.com>
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Hi, In /boot/loader.conf, I have hw.ata.ata_dma="0" to prevent a WRITE_DMA failure crash at bootup. Unfortunately, this forces my UDMA100 harddisk to operate at PIO4 speed. There are patches flying around on this mailing list that might solve the problem. I'm very keen on testing such patches, but I should remove the line in loader.conf. However, if the patch does not work, I end up with an unbootable disk. It would be nice if I can set hw.ata.ata_dma="0" at the loader prompt during bootup, so that the system at least will boot from harddisk. Is that possible? Thanks, Rob.
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