via 8237 and above-udma33 problems

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:26:08 +0200
Divacky Roman <xdivac02 at stud.fit.vutbr.cz> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I've got via 8237 ata driver with a new big seagate (ST3160023A) disk..

 [ ... ]

It seems that VIA8237 + Seagates + FreeBSD -CURRENT is a deadly
combination. I ended up checnginh 

> 1) is there any solution for this driver not hanging on udma>33 ?
> 
> 2) if not - how may I tell fbsd to initialize this drive (resp. the
> channel the drive is attached to) to udma33 instead of the default mode.
> I want to boot from that drive so I cannot use atacontrol or whatever
> since it would have hanged before I'd enter user-space system
> initialization

Put  hw.ata.ata_dma=0
/boot/loader.conf




> 
> thnx for reponse!
> 
> roman
> 
> P.S. I can provide more info, just ask for it. and I also might
> experiment with that drive.
> 
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