On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 05:52:24PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> I have an ancient (wait for it: Celeron!) Gateway desktop that
> throws this error when booting the above-mentioned CD:
>
> wdc_atapi_intr: bad sata phase DATAOUT
>
> This has occurred with two different hard drives.
>
> A bit of googling tells me this is a DMA vs PIO issue, MAYBE, so I
> wonder if there are any args I can enter at the boot prompt to help
> this along?
It would help to see how the drive is probed; especially what driver is
used for the controller.
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Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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