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Date:      Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:36:42 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
To:        Wajih Ahmed <wajih.ahmed@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 9.0 and (Kingspec) PATA drive ATA status errors. Drive unusable.
Message-ID:  <1344789402.1186.35.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
In-Reply-To: <CABtOXea5Yr%2BzkU4QLC6rNOCy=wema0La6P-fcy=0=Rt1hRHNhw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 12:29 -0400, Wajih Ahmed wrote:
> Thank you.  I'll try it out.  One question though.  How do i modify the
> loader.conf on the usb image from which i am booting?  Is there somethign i
> can change in the boot loader?  If this is RTFM kindly point me to it.

You can enter the value interactively in the loader.  Just hit a key
while it's doing the boot countdown to get the interactive prompt, and
enter

 set hint.ata.0.mode="UDMA33"
 boot

-- Ian





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