ATA problems on Promise controller

[Friedemann Becker]

try hw.ata.ata_dma="0" in /boot/loader.conf to disable DMA, it is
currently broken but worked on

On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Paul van der Zwan wrote:

> With a -current kernel ( cvsupped today ) I can no longer boot.
> It hangs on the drives connected to the promis controller built into my
> MSI KT266 mobo.
> The messages are like
>
> ad2: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
>
> Same for ad3. It tries falling back to pio mode but after that it hangs
> completely.
> I have tried putting hw.at.tags=0 in /boot/loader.conf as suggested in
> some older messages on this list but that dit not help.