FreeBSD 11.1 on Soekris NET4501. Storage issue

[Mike Tancsa]

On 12/13/2017 2:23 PM, fml wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:54:01AM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>>> (aprobe0:ata0:0:0:0): RES: 51 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00
>>> (aprobe0:ata0:0:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted
>>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ada0s1a [ro]...
>>> mountroot: waiting for device /dev/ada0s1a...
>>
>> Its been a LONG time since I booted one of these, but I seem to recall
>> it was quite particular about setting how the disk was accessed.  I
>> recall having to set something in /boot/loader.conf. Maybe the sata
>> version ? dma mode ?


hw.ata.ata_dma=0
hw.ata.atapi_dma=0

were the two I was thinking about

	---Mike


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