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From: Marshall Heartley <heartley@earthlink.net>
To: Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <doublef@tele-kom.ru>
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Subject: Re: Need some insight on error messages that I am getting.
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<snip>
> > Is there a way to put the proper atacontrol command in somewhere so that
> > it will slow the first hdd (ad0) down to UDMA33?  
> 
> Perhaps a script in "/usr/local/etc/rc.d"... but before it is run, ad0
> will be UDMA66.
> 
> Wherever you put an atacontrol command, ad0 will be UDMA66 before that
> (outside of modifying the kernel), which might cause some trouble.
> 
> A solution might be to first set all drives into PIO (by adding
> hw.ata.ata_dma=0 in the loader config) and `atacontrol' them in rc.d to
> their speeds (both to UDMA33). This may cause the boot to be somewhat
> slower.

Thanks! I will look into this.  I appreciate the help in this matter!

Marshall