IBM 120 G IDE -- problems

[Jonas]

OH MAN...... You don't know how many hours you just saved me!!! It boots
up beautifully with 3 drives.

Thank you!!!!

For future reference, do you know why this happens?

Jonas Fornander - System Administrator
Netwood Communications,LLC - www.netwood.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Birrell [mailto:jb at cimlogic.com.au] 
> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 8:36 PM
> To: Jonas
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org; freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: IBM 120 G IDE -- problems
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 08:27:18PM -0700, Jonas wrote:
> > 
> > I have the exact same problem with two brand new MB's from Asus. The
> > model is P4P800 and P4P800-VM and all the drives are brand 
> new Seagate
> > IDE drives. I have removed the CD-ROM drive and the box 
> boots up fine
> > with Primary and Secondary master but as soon as I add a 
> 3rd drive the
> > boot process hangs on ata0 (or ata1) "Resetting 
> devices....". Changing
> > the drive to Cable-Select or putting the slave at the end 
> of the cable
> > doesn't fix the problem either.
> 
> I have that problem with an ASUS P4S533 motherboard. I add 
> these sysctl
> values to /boot/loader.conf:
> 
> hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
> hw.ata.atapi_dma="0"
> 
> You can also interrupt the boot loader and type:
> 
> set hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
> set hw.ata.atapi_dma="0"
> boot
> 
> -- 
> John Birrell
>