i386/58784: [ata] ATA does not work in DMA mode (ASUS P55TP4N motherboard)

[Mats Dufberg]

On Sep 11, 2006, 12:29 (-0000) Remko Lodder <remko at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Synopsis: [ata] ATA does not work in DMA mode (ASUS P55TP4N motherboard)
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: remko
> State-Changed-When: Mon Sep 11 12:28:40 UTC 2006
> State-Changed-Why: 
> Hello,
> 
> Can you tell me what kind of cable you use to talk with the
> ATA controller? they can really make a difference (from not
> working to working); in my own setup i needed to replace
> my 40 pins cables to 80 pins cables.
> 
> Also; just for the record, can you tell me whether this is
> still a problem for 6.1 release?

I'm sorry. I hade three machines with the same problem, but now all of 
them are "gone". I did chech the cable, and note that FreeBSD 4 was never 
a problem, only FreeBSD 5 and 6.

The motherboard is for Pentium CPU ("Pentium I"). I guess few of them are 
left now. 



Mats

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