Re: ad0 READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors on install of 7.0-RELEASE

On 29/02/2008, Stephen Hurd <hurds@sasktel.net> wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
> > 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.[/color]
>
> 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.
>
> _______________________________________________[/color]

Does that workaround work when the disks are sata?

Chris
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