ASUS P5A or P5AB (one of each now) - won't boot without setting hw.ata.ata_dma=0. GEOM recognizes the drive itself but then the reads of the disklabels fail with a message that I can't find in the source, about a DMA failure. System then prompts to mount root and nothing I type works. I see looking at the list archive that I'm not the only one with this problem. The message appears 3 times per drive with some seconds between, implying to me that it is (at least) a missing interrupt (or completely missing operation?).
If anyone wants I could take the trouble to set up a serial console and capture the output. I suspect that is already done somewhere though. Approx same cvsup time works fine in my laptop running ICH3 chipset. Then again, Intel != Acer :-) At least I figured out a bypass easily... Makes "make world" lots slower but at least works. Other (unrelated?) minor problem in past (don't know if it's still there); acpi timer doesn't work right on this chipset either (ran clock at approx double rate with lots of "went backwards" messages). Appears better now at least on one example (non-ASUS board, though) - at least ntp is happy. -- Pete _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
