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 drive
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
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 shou
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
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> -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 08:27:18P
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 Second
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 cont
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 hang
