7 on Soekris net4801?

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 12:17:59PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> I'd figure that the problem is that the geode chip doesn't support 128 
> sector writes just up to 126, that is not honered from the dump rutine 
> IIRC.

Not only the dump routine fails, so does savecore(8):

Physical memory: 251 MB
Dumping 74 MB:ata0: FAILURE - oversized DMA transfer attempt 65536 > 64512
ad0: setting up DMA failed

...

Checking for core dump on /dev/ad0s1b...
ata0: FAILURE - non aligned DMA transfer attempted
ad0: setting up DMA failed
savecore: error reading last dump header at offset 536870400 in /dev/ad0s1b: Input/output error
savecore: no dumps found
Nov 16 19:13:07 tirith savecore: error reading last dump header at offset 536870400 in /dev/ad0s1b: Input/output error

Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix at FreeBSD.org>
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