Need some insight on error messages that I am getting.

Marshall Heartley heartley at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 24 05:59:37 PDT 2003


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> > Is there a way to put the proper atacontrol command in somewhere so that
> > it will slow the first hdd (ad0) down to UDMA33?  
> 
> Perhaps a script in "/usr/local/etc/rc.d"... but before it is run, ad0
> will be UDMA66.
> 
> Wherever you put an atacontrol command, ad0 will be UDMA66 before that
> (outside of modifying the kernel), which might cause some trouble.
> 
> A solution might be to first set all drives into PIO (by adding
> hw.ata.ata_dma=0 in the loader config) and `atacontrol' them in rc.d to
> their speeds (both to UDMA33). This may cause the boot to be somewhat
> slower.

Thanks! I will look into this.  I appreciate the help in this matter!

Marshall



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