ata0: FAILURE - zero length DMA transfer attempted

[Anton Shterenlikht]

>From se at freebsd.org Sun Dec 29 09:11:31 2013
>
>Am 28.12.2013 22:01, schrieb Anton Shterenlikht:
>> Hello
>> 
>> I updated to r257910 amd64.
>> I now get lots of:
>> 
>> ata0: FAILURE - zero length DMA transfer attempted
>> ata0: setting up DMA failed
>> 
>> Please advise
>
>Hi Anton,
>
>this is generally caused by a mismatch between kernel and
>programs sending CAM requests, e.g. smartmontools or hal.
>
>Just reprogram these two packages (or others that might do
>CAM accesses) in the problem will be gone ...
>
>Regards, STefan

Thank you, that helped.

Anton