My thanks to all the people who replied to my
problem with the 120 GB drive. The fix -- or
rather, workaround -- is to disable DMA on IDE
by setting hw.ata.ata_dma=0 in /boot/loader.conf .
This means that any I/O on that disk sucks the
processor right up into the drive. This is OK,
but barely,
[ top posting corrected ]
I have that problem with an ASUS P4S533 motherboard. I add
these sysctl
values to /boot/loader.conf:
hw.ata.ata_dma=0
hw.ata.atapi_dma=0
OH MAN.. You don't know how many hours you just saved me!!! It boots
up beautifully with 3 drives.
Thank
I have the exact same problem with two brand new MB's from Asus. The
model is P4P800 and P4P800-VM and all the drives are brand new Seagate
IDE drives. I have removed the CD-ROM drive and the box boots up fine
with Primary and Secondary master but as soon as I add a 3rd drive the
boot process
On Sunday 07 September 2003 10:16 pm, Mark Terribile wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to add a 120G IDE drive, and FreeBSD
hangs during bootstrap.
My current storage configuration is
3 SCSI drives on an Adaptec controller
2 floppy drives (3+1/2 and 5+1/4 -- yes!) on
the controller
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 08:27:18PM -0700, Jonas wrote:
I have the exact same problem with two brand new MB's from Asus. The
model is P4P800 and P4P800-VM and all the drives are brand new Seagate
IDE drives. I have removed the CD-ROM drive and the box boots up fine
with Primary and Secondary
-Original Message-
From: John Birrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 8:36 PM
To: Jonas
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IBM 120 G IDE -- problems
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 08:27:18PM -0700, Jonas wrote:
I have the exact same
Jonas wrote:
I have the exact same problem with two brand new MB's from Asus. The
model is P4P800 and P4P800-VM and all the drives are brand new Seagate
IDE drives. I have removed the CD-ROM drive and the box boots up fine
with Primary and Secondary master but as soon as I add a 3rd drive the
On Sunday 07 September 2003 10:29 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
On Sunday 07 September 2003 10:16 pm, Mark Terribile wrote:
A drive problem seems unlikely; this was a new disk
sealed in silver mylar and I expect these drives
to be rock-solid. (Should I doubt this?)
Yes, you should doubt
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 08:50:48PM -0700, Jonas wrote:
OH MAN.. You don't know how many hours you just saved me!!! It boots
up beautifully with 3 drives.
Thank you
For future reference, do you know why this happens?
No. It's on my list of things to follow up, but there are so
