IBM 120 G IDE -- problems
John Birrell
jb at cimlogic.com.au
Sun Sep 7 20:33:25 PDT 2003
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 08:27:18PM -0700, Jonas wrote:
>
> I have the exact same problem with two brand new MB's from Asus. The
> model is P4P800 and P4P800-VM and all the drives are brand new Seagate
> IDE drives. I have removed the CD-ROM drive and the box boots up fine
> with Primary and Secondary master but as soon as I add a 3rd drive the
> boot process hangs on ata0 (or ata1) "Resetting devices....". Changing
> the drive to Cable-Select or putting the slave at the end of the cable
> doesn't fix the problem either.
I have that problem with an ASUS P4S533 motherboard. I add these sysctl
values to /boot/loader.conf:
hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
hw.ata.atapi_dma="0"
You can also interrupt the boot loader and type:
set hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
set hw.ata.atapi_dma="0"
boot
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John Birrell
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