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Date:      Sat, 24 Apr 2004 14:14:28 +0100
From:      John Murphy <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk>
To:        newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New day, new drive (Was 'going small')
Message-ID:  <5rok80135jfpq3rhoe82b74pgk93j01vua@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <4089DFF6.1020504@nbritton.org>
References:  <523j80dedv1lqpnmpphkfv80vguaqh2hp4@4ax.com> <4089DFF6.1020504@nbritton.org>

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Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> wrote:

>John Murphy wrote:

>>Should I enable dma?
>
>Donno.....Download/Install m0n0wall (5MB) (Uses FreeBSD 4.9, and fully=20
>supports the net48xx boards) or FreeBSD 4.9 (don't get 4.10-RC) (Mini=20
>ISO, 200MB) to diagnoise weather its a software or a hardware issue,=20
>it's probable that its a freebsd 5 issue.

Well as I hadn't done much more than a basic install, and having had
a little practice already, I decided to risk just switching dma on.

No problems whatsoever so it must've been a conflict between 5.2.1
and the desktop ata controller.  And Jensen Button's just won pole
for tomorrow's F1 at Imola! It's been a good day already :)

--=20
John.



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