From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 12 8:58:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.vgsinc.com (proxy.vgsinc.com [209.48.221.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B919A37B5B3 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 08:58:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from APendleton@vgsinc.com) Received: by PROXY with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 11:53:54 -0400 Message-ID: From: Adam Pendleton To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Old DMA problems? Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 11:53:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was looking through the archives, because I know this problem has come up before, but I couldn't find a solution in any of the articles. My problem is this. When performing the 4.0-RELEASE installation from the ISO image, I get through all the package selection, disk partitioning, etc. setup, but when it comes time to actually perform the disk formatting I get this error on the error console: ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting at0: [attempting?] resetting devices How can I correct this? Is it necessary to turn of DMA, and if so, how do I do that, and what is the penalty for doing that? This is an AMD K6, with a generic hard drive. Adam H. Pendleton Security Engineer VGS, Inc. Fairfax, Virginia Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message