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Date:      Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:12:03 +0100
From:      Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ad0 READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors on install of 7.0-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20080301131203.00001e51@westmark>
In-Reply-To: <d582d87b7f8c.47c8271f@sasktel.net>
References:  <d582d87b7f8c.47c8271f@sasktel.net>

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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:39:11 -0800
Stephen Hurd <hurds@sasktel.net> wrote:
> As a workaround, adding the line:
> hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
> To /boot/loader.conf will disable DMA and prevent the hangs that are
> caused by the DMA timeouts.

Yeah, but having dma=1 makes the system faster, doesn't it?

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