Re: UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-19 Thread Terry Lambert
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So we removed it from the kernel config... and the damn > > thing enabled it again. > > You're thinking of ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA, which is only for ATAPI > devices (i.e. CD-ROMs), not for disks. Yes, thank you; you save

Re: UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jonathan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am thinking of what _was_ 'sysctl hw.atamodes' (or similar) in -STABLE. You are not Terry. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-15 Thread Jonathan Smith
>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: UDMA interfering with install > > Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So we removed it from the kernel config... and the damn > > thing enabled it again. > > You're thinking of ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA, which is on

Re: UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So we removed it from the kernel config... and the damn > thing enabled it again. You're thinking of ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA, which is only for ATAPI devices (i.e. CD-ROMs), not for disks. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: s

Re: UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-14 Thread Terry Lambert
S?ren Schmidt wrote: > > This was a 4.3 system -- things seem to have changed in > > the source tree since then. > > Nope. > > > In 4.3, it's not possible to disable DMA, because it gets > > reenabled in many places (atapi.c, etc.). > > there is no atapi.c... > > > This was off-topic for -curr

Re: UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-14 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > "Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > > This won't work. > > > > > > Someone was having the same problem the other day, and > > > I suggested the same soloution, but after probe, the > > > damn driver enabled UDMA at attach time anyway. > > > > Just set hw.ata.ata_dma="0" in

Re: UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-14 Thread Terry Lambert
"Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > > Maybe _that_ will keep that ata code from over-riding > > > the bios to disable dma (or maybe the bios just wasn't > > > doing it's job right ;) > > > > This won't work. > > > > Someone was having the same problem the other day, and > > I suggested the same soloution,

Re: UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-13 Thread John Hay
> > > > That's good enough. :) Thanks > > > > Maybe _that_ will keep that ata code from over-riding > > the bios to disable dma (or maybe the bios just wasn't > > doing it's job right ;) > > > This won't work. What do you mean with this? The procedure that I described (barring typos) do

Re: UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-13 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > Jonathan Smith wrote: > > > > That's good enough. :) Thanks > > > > Maybe _that_ will keep that ata code from over-riding > > the bios to disable dma (or maybe the bios just wasn't > > doing it's job right ;) > > This won't work. > > Someone was having the

Re: UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-13 Thread Terry Lambert
Jonathan Smith wrote: > > That's good enough. :) Thanks > > Maybe _that_ will keep that ata code from over-riding > the bios to disable dma (or maybe the bios just wasn't > doing it's job right ;) This won't work. Someone was having the same problem the other day, and I suggested the sam

Re: UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan Smith
Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: UDMA interfering with install > > > > > Unfortunately, the UDMA chipset on my ASUS P5A doesn't work well with > > Western Vegetable drives So, I need to forcibly sysctl it into pio > > mod

Re: UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-11 Thread John Hay
> > Unfortunately, the UDMA chipset on my ASUS P5A doesn't work well with > Western Vegetable drives So, I need to forcibly sysctl it into pio > mode. Is there *any* way to do this from sysinstall on the > 5.0-200105250-CURRENT (or later snap on current.freebsd.org) floppy > bootup? Well I

UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan Smith
Unfortunately, the UDMA chipset on my ASUS P5A doesn't work well with Western Vegetable drives So, I need to forcibly sysctl it into pio mode. Is there *any* way to do this from sysinstall on the 5.0-200105250-CURRENT (or later snap on current.freebsd.org) floppy bootup? Thanks j. -