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Re: error in booting up OpenBSD 3.3 main cd

From: Ted Unangst (teduzeitbombe.org)
Date: Sun Aug 03 2003 - 14:29:37 CDT


On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 sven_dehmlowgmx.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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