At 10:18 PM +0000 2/26/08, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Hoffman writes: > >>>My net4801 is into its 3rd year running FreeBSD on a standard HD 24/7. >>>Can't expect it to last forever though. So I'm trying to get a CF >>>working without much luck so far. It's a Kingston 1GB 50x 'elite pro' > >The problem is that the CF card reports DMA capability but on older >4801's the CF card is not wired for that. > >FreeBSD cannot see the missing wires, and things get stuck. > >You can set > hw.ata.ata_dma=0 > >in the loader to tell the disk driver to not attempt DMA.
Ah, in /boot/loader.conf, not /etc/sysctl.conf. Thanks! That fixed the problem. (I had put it in /etc/sysctl.conf, not /boot/loader.conf.) _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
