From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 24 21: 7:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yoda.dccnet.com (mail.deltacable.com [207.230.239.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B315D37BDCA for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 21:07:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kg@dccnet.com) Received: from dccnet.com (unverified [209.5.131.193]) by yoda.dccnet.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.6) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 May 2000 21:05:32 -0700 Message-ID: <392CA717.93843A98@dccnet.com> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 21:07:51 -0700 From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: Kent Stewart , Grigoriy Strokin , Jim Weeks , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ad0 drivers revisited References: <200005241953.e4OJr1r23466@cwsys.cwsent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Another solution (temporarily) On another list someone posted that maxtor has available a flash utility for their ata66 drives that allow you to flash from ata66 to ata33, and back to ata66. He has forwarded me the self extracting executable, if wanted I'll do the same. He had to get it sent to him by the support desk if I read it correctly, if you want it directly from maxtor( which I would understand ). > > > > > > ad0: 4884MB [10585/15/63] at ata0-master using BIOSD > > MA > > > > > > ata1-slave: simplex device, DMA on primary only > > > > > > acd0: CDROM at ata1-slave using BIOSPIO > > > > > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > > > > > In my case, I see the message 'dma,dma -> pio,pio' > > > > > at this point. Maybe try /sbin/sysctl instead > > > > > of just sysctl? > > > > > > > > Have you all done a "man sysctl.conf" > > > > > > Actually, have you? Read it and see why it will probably not help here. > > > > I actually did. It seems like everyone was trying to add the > > equivalent of > > > > sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,---,dma,pio,---,dma,---, > > > > and adding > > > > hw.atamodes=pio,pio,---,dma,pio,---,dma,---, > > > to /etc/sysctl.conf > > -- Regards, )))))) )))))) )))))) Kevin G. Eliuk )) )) )) )) )) )) http://www.FreeBSD.org )) "Change your operating system, )) )) )) )) )) and You can change your World." )))))) )))))) )))))) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message