Never mind,
I changed the primary master from "auto" to "custom" in the bios and then I
disabled udma support and it's okay.
It was set to "6" before, now it works.

Eventually if there are other ways to do it from "command-prompt" I'll be
happy to learn :-)


Thank you,
:-) Andrea

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrea Rossignoli" <software@polin.it>
To: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 09:32
Subject: pciide0 bus-master DMA error:...status=0x6


> Hi,
> I'm trying to install NetBSD 1.6.1 from a CD-ROM on a new pc, it's an asus
> terminator p4 533.
> The installation process will stop showing me this message:
>
> pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
>            type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
> pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x61
>
> I checked the BIOS and it's not possible to disable U/DMA.
>
> Under FreeBSD I was able to disable DMA using before device "probing",
> set hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
>
> I'm a beginner,
> could you please help me ?
>
> I _don't_ want, if possible, to compile a new kernel because I don't have
> the resources to do that,
> sorry if these are banal questions... ;-)
>
>
> Thank you,
> :-) Andrea