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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message