special test request for 6.1-BETA1 on ATA disks

Nathan Whitehorn nathanw at uchicago.edu
Wed Feb 15 15:22:46 PST 2006


Wilko Bulte wrote:
> Folks,  
>
> I am getting the strong impression that there is something hosed
> related to ATA at least on the DS10 and DS10L.  Test installs 
> on ATA disks work fine, but the first boot of the installed disk
> fails miserably, typically the symptom is that the first shell won't
> start or similar.  I got:
>   
Speaking of ATA, is there any chance of getting the ATA DMA bug fixed? 
I've been forced to run 5.2.1 on my PC164SX because of it...
-Nathan


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