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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 16:02:05 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        des@yes.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DMA problems with IBM DeskStar drive 
Message-ID:  <5306.926517725@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 May 1999 15:51:12 %2B0200." <199905121351.PAA51235@freebsd.dk> 

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In message <199905121351.PAA51235@freebsd.dk>, Soren Schmidt writes:
>It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>> I have a brand new 10 GB IBM UltrStar (DTTA-371010) which is causing
>> me some pains. If I boot with flags 0x80ff, everything works fine:
>
>Hmm, I have one of those, it works wonderfully with my ata driver...
>So try to use that instead, it should work then...

Try disabling "ultra DMA" in the BIOS, that seems to have worked for
me on my IBM-DJNA-371800 drive.

(Jordan: We may want to put something in the README about this in 3.2!)

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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