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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:11:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Omar Revueltas <omar@pluggedin.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Compaq evo "BTX Halted" error solution
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030731131117.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F28400A.6090808@pluggedin.org>

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On 30-Jul-2003 Omar Revueltas wrote:
> I've seen some "BTX Halted" error's  with Compaq Evo desktops around 
> google and some of them dont work.
> I installed FreeBSD 4.7 succesfully by:
> going to the BIOS and setting under the Device options
> to MAX PIO for the HardDrive
> to MAX PIO for the CDROM
> to MAX PIO for the defaults
> 
> I've done this four times on different machines and the BTX Halted error 
> dissapeared.

This is because the DMA support in the BIOS does some hoky stuff.  I
am sort of working on a solution to this.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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