"Bernhard Valenti" wrote in > On 1/16/2004 9:51 AM, Jeroen wrote: > > same here, try "set hw.ata.ata_dma=0" in the boot loader. worked for me. > DMA is not working in the ata driver for the 645dx chipset. > That almost did the trick It put me on the right track. I also had to disable write caching: set hw.ata.wc=0 Thanks, Jeroen Ketema