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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