Disable DMA.

Peter Ankerstål PETER at PEAN.ORG
Sun Feb 12 09:30:03 UTC 2012


On Feb 11, 2012, at 9:34 PM, Alexander Motin wrote:

> On 02/11/12 20:15, Peter Ankerstål wrote:
>> In FreeBSD 8 i used the loader-variable hw.ata.ata_dma=0 to get my computer boot on a CF card. But
>> in FreeBSD 9.0 it doesn't seem to work. Could it be another variable or is it something else that doesn't work
>> in 9? The machine boots up the installer when the CF-card is not present but when it is present it stops right
>> after the "Timecounter" stuff.
> 
> On 9.0 you can to it with
> hint.ata.X.mode=PIO4
> , where X is a bus number.
> 
> In recent 8/9-STABLE I've also resurrected hw.ata.ata_dma=0.
> 
That works, thanks!





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