Boot problem: "ata0: resetting devices"

[Rich Morin]

At 7:29 AM -0700 5/30/03, Kent Stewart wrote:
>I use the Promise TX2 and Maxtor pci cards in several systems. I
>just dropped them in and they worked. You would have to boot scsi.
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So, you're saying that I can't boot from an ATA drive on a PCI-based
controller card?  What is the background for this limitation?

Also, I'm curious about the effects of turning off hw.ata.ata_dma;
outside of using some CPU time, what are the likely effects of this.
For instance, is this likely to slow down disk transfers, assuming
that the system is mostly idle?

-r
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