Disable DMA without loader.conf or sysctl.conf.

[Chris Rees]

Hey guys;

I'm back to using FreeBSD, after my major hardware upgrade seriously
broke everything (teach me to optimise...)

I've stuck it on my xbox for now, and it runs like a charm, of course,
except it complains then dies on boot about the HDD having problems
with DMA. It's only using a 40-conductor cable, and 80 works fine, but
the cable is a special length; I need to use the provided one to shut
the case!

Is there _any_ way to disable ata DMA at kernel compile time?
Remembering that Cromwell won't support loader....

Thanks a lot

Chris

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lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
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