ata and seagate microdrive problems

[Warren Block]

On Thu, April 9, 2009 19:48, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install current on via itx using ide 44pin to cf 
> adapter and a seagate 8GB microdrive.
>
> I thought it was to be ok, but just today when I received the adapter 
> I got nowhere in this. I tried 7.1-STABLE and 8.0-CURRENT from 
> 200902, and both fail to find it. the same thing in 7.1R.

"Fail to find it" is a little vague.  Is the CF card detected by the 
BIOS?

Many CF-to-IDE adapters don't support DMA:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-small/2005-July/000441.html

Lack of DMA support in the adapter results in errors, lots of them, 
after the kernel boots.  Disabling DMA as above fixed that on a 2G CF 
card and CF-to-IDE adapter for me.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA