ATA DMA issues - are there problems lurking in 7.1?

[Chris H]

Quoting Chris H <chris#@1command.com>:

> Hello Gavin, and thank you for your reply...
>
> Quoting Gavin Atkinson <gavin at freebsd.org>:
>
>> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 02:48 -0700, Chris H wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>> I have several Tyan S2518UGN (Thunder LE-T) server boards that I've
>>> been running for a few yrs. I've always used the SCSI on them, so never
>>> really used the ATA ports. I once experimented dual-booting NT2003 & FBSD
>>> on one of the ATA ports about a year ago. But ran into the problem I'm
>>> running into now. Back then I just blamed it on the drive (even tho it
>>> was brand new, and ran NT without complaints). But FreeBSD complains.
>>> So this is the story now; I'm trying it again - different drive, and using
>>> XP-SP3 & BSD. XP installs/runs w/o a hitch. I then install BSD on the
>>> second half of the drive, and make an entry into the XP boot loader.
>>> Reboot into the fresh BSD install - now the trouble begins...
>>> I periodically receive the following messages:
>>
>> Can you provide a full verbose dmesg from the system online somewhere
>> please?
>
> Can do!
>
> http://hosting.1command.com/dmesg/dmesg.boot
>
> Hope this helps, and thanks again.
>
> --Chris
>

Greetings,
Is there any reason to think I might be OK using 6.4?

Thank you for all your time and consideration.

--Chris

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>> Gavin
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