[Soekris] ATA DMA success on net5501?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <273083DD-24FB-4B6A-81C7-68A0AEC825A2 at transsys.com>, Louis Mamakos w
rites:

>I just received a net5501 and am running FreeBSD 6.x (RELENG_6) on  
>it.  It has a 1GB CF card, and a 60GB ATA 2.5" IDE disk drive  
>installed.  I have problems with FreeBSD booting, hanging just after  
>the probe/attach of the two ATA disks, unless I disable the DMA in / 
>boot/loader.conf:

Which bios version do you have ?

There was a ATA DMA related issue until 1.32i (from memory).

Poul-Henning


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