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Date:      Wed, 08 Dec 1999 16:24:28 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Tom Embt <tom@embt.com>
Cc:        Joe Park <joepark@uclink4.berkeley.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hard drive crash...please help 
Message-ID:  <21640.944663068@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Dec 1999 09:22:49 EST." <3.0.3.32.19991208092249.0135e8b0@mail.embt.com> 

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On Wed, 08 Dec 1999 09:22:49 EST, Tom Embt wrote:

> FWIW, I've had that message before.  I think it's caused when I enable DMA
> on my AOpen AP58 motherboard (some SiS chipset, I forget what).  Machine is
> 3.3-STABLE; I just assumed that there was some problem/lack of support with
> the SiS chipset, disabled DMA, and left it at that.  (Performance was not
> really important)

Given that Joe says he has already removed flags from his kernel
config (thus disabling DMA), I'd say that it must be a cabling problem
-- unless of course he changed his kernel config without actually
compiling, installing and booting the new kernel. ;-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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