Re: Dma error

Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Aug 2003 21:55:55 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:50:22PM -0700, Soren Jacobsen wrote:
> On 08/18 21:04, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 07:47:01PM -0700, marlon corleone wrote:
> > > i guess this is a known issue, is there somehow i can do to disable
> > > pciide so i can boot safely and install netBSD, like in FreeBSD i
> > > just type in the boot prompt:
> > 
> > boot -c
> 
> In the past, I've wanted to disable DMA at boot time. When I tried with
> userconf, it wouldn't let me change pciide's flags. Was I doing
> something wrong?

No, but if the controller is in compat mode, you can disable pciide completely,
and it will be handled by the ISA wdc attachement (which doesn't do DMA,
of course)

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Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
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