Re: error in booting up OpenBSD 3.3 main cd

[Ted Unangst <tedu@zeitbombe.org>]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 sven_dehmlow@gmx.de wrote:

> > pciide0:0:0  busmaster DMA error: missing interrupt,
> > status = 0 x21
>
> Looks like typical DMA trouble. Did you already try
>
> boot -c
> disable pciide
> quit
>
> at boottime? This should do the same as
>
> set hw.ata.ata_dma=0
>
> in freebsd. Or in other words: It should turn DMA off.

no, that is wrong.  read the man pages for wd and atapiscsi.  marlon
should also try to explain why this is a problem.  does the system
print a message and work, or do something wrong?


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