FreeBSD 11.1 on Soekris NET4501. Storage issue

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 13:44:58 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 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

On my ye olde home PC, I have those in /boot/loader.conf:

	hw.ata.atapi_dma="1"
	hw.ata.ata_dma="1"
	hw.ata.wc="0"

The descriptions are:

hw.ata.atapi_dma: ATAPI device DMA mode control
hw.ata.ata_dma: ATA disk DMA mode control
hw.ata.wc: ATA disk write caching

Maybe this will help?


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