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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:05:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      David@webedited.com
To:        northern snowfall <dbailey27@ameritech.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hang after soft reboot.
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302241401370.7701-100000@buzz.frogspace.net>
In-Reply-To: <3E5A8C56.4070909@ameritech.net>

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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, northern snowfall wrote:

> >If the extra hacking was done, what would be wrong with that occurring at 
> >the end of the reboot process, rather than the start of the boot process?

> It probably wouldn't *hurt* anything, though, it wouldn't *do* anything,
> either. When power cycles the ATA will initialize to the native state.
> So, any assertion of pins prior to power cycle would be moot. Don

I see. However, good news I appear to have solved this by adding

hw.ata.ata_dma="0"

to /boot/loader.conf

I've no idea why this could be required for a warm boot but not a cold 
one, but I'm happy it appears to be working now.

DG


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