ad0 READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors on install of 7.0-RELEASE

[Chris]

On 29/02/2008, Stephen Hurd <hurds at sasktel.net> wrote:
> > last night. It's a MiniITX board, model EN1200. My system can't remain
> > up for more than 10minutes before something locks it up and frequently
> > the screen will output error messages relating to DMA.
>
> As a workaround, adding the line:
> hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
>
> To /boot/loader.conf will disable DMA and prevent the hangs that are caused by the DMA timeouts.
>
> _______________________________________________

Does that workaround work when the disks are sata?

Chris