Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 02:10:43 +0400 From: Grigoriy Strokin <grg@philol.msu.ru> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Audio record problems in 4.0-STABLE: 1. Creative ViBRA16X Message-ID: <20000331021043.A3912@isabase.philol.msu.ru> In-Reply-To: <20000331020541.A3613@isabase.philol.msu.ru>; from grg@philol.msu.ru on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:05:42AM %2B0400 References: <20000326200211.A6863@isabase.philol.msu.ru> <20000331020541.A3613@isabase.philol.msu.ru>
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:05:42AM +0400, Grigoriy Strokin wrote: > Hello, > > While the bug wiping out filesystems on machines with Apollo MVP3 when ATA > driver is in UDMA mode is being fixed, I suppose there at least should be some > note added to /usr/src/UPDATING, so that another users do not loss > all their data and have to reinitialize /usr and restore it from backup, as I > had to do? > > Something like that: > > If you use the Apollo MVP3 chipset, it is STRONGLY > recommended that you disable the use of DMA mode in ATA drivers > BEFORE you try to boot the system after `make installworld'. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ should be `make installkernel' > Add the following line: > /sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio > to the very beginning of your /etc/rc, > ~root/.profile and ~root/.login. > Be warned that if you don't disable the DMA mode, > all your filesystems may be corrupted because > of a bug in the driver that is still being fixed. > -- === Grigoriy Strokin, Lomonosov University (MGU), Moscow === === contact info: http://isabase.philol.msu.ru/~grg/ === To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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