[Soekris] Re: net4801/FreeBSD-current/Hitachi Travelstar 40Gb - what geometry?

[Jedi/Sector One]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 06:14:00PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> I tried OpenBSD earlier on the machine [...] it failed to initialize
> the disk (machine lockup)

  You have to disable DMA on pciide* or indeed fdisk will freeze.
  
  Once the system is installed, you can use a generic kernel with DMA turned
on with no issue.

  In order to disable DMA and as posted by Alexandre Belloni 3 weeks ago on
that list :
  
# config -e -f bsd
ukc> change wd*
 34 wd* at wdc0|wdc1|wdc*|wdc*|pciide* channel -1 flags 0x0
change [n] y
channel [-1] ?
flags [0x0] ? 0xfffc
 34 wd* changed
 34 wd* at wdc0|wdc1|wdc*|wdc*|pciide* channel -1 flags 0xfffc
ukc> change pciide*
 78 pciide* at pci* dev -1 function -1 flags 0x0
change [n] y
dev [-1] ?
function [-1] ?
flags [0x0] ? 0xfffc
 78 pciide* changed
 78 pciide* at pci* dev -1 function -1 flags 0xfffc
ukc> quit

  Replace "bsd" with the path to the vanilla bsd kernel that you are
planning to boot through PXE.

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