[RESOLVED] CF card fails to boot in non-safe mode.

[nirokato]

This issue has been resolved by disabling DMA for the CF card. See Solution below initial issue.

Hi, I'm having difficulty booting in non-safe mode from a 4GB compact flash card (newly written pfSense-2.2.4-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd-vga.img using dd_rescue -A). It boots fine in safe-mode.

When I boot the image after it's been written it fails with the error below. Any ideas?

Error:

ada0 at ata1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
ada0: <cf 20070131="" 4gb="">ATA-0 device
ada0: Serial Number TSS21537070419091908
ada0: 16.700MB/s transfers (WDMA2, PIO 512bytes)
ada0: 3953MB (8097264 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 8033C)
ada0: Previously was known as ad2
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 53336481 Hz quality 800
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ubub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ugen0.2: <logitech>at usbus0
ukbd0: <logitech 0="" 2="" usb="" receiver,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 12.01,="" addr="">on usbus0
kdb2 at ukdb0
uhid0: <logitech 0="" 2="" usb="" receiver,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 12.01,="" addr="">on usbus0
(ada0:ata1:0:0:0): READ_DMA. ACB: c8 00 b1 8d 7b 40 00 00 00 00 04 00
(ada0:ata1:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout
(ada0:ata1:0:0:0): Retrying command
ada0 at ata1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
ada0: < > detatched</logitech></logitech></logitech></cf> 

SNIP

ada0: Previously was known as ad2
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0 [ro,sync,noatime]...
mountroot: waiting for device /dev/ufs/pfsense0 ...
Mounting from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0 failed with error 19.

Loader variables:
    vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0
    vfs.root.mountfrom.options=ro,sync,noatime

Manual root filesystem specification:
    <fstype>: <device>[options]
        Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
        and with the specified (optional) option list.

        eg ufs:/dev/da0s1a
              ufs:tank
              cd9660:/dev/acd0 ro
                  (which is equivalent to : mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0 /)

    ?    List valid disk boot devices
    .     Yield 1 second (for background tasks)
    <empty line=""> Abort manual input

mountroot></empty></fstype></device></device></fstype>

Here is my system information:

System:  VIA EPIA-5000
CPU: VIA E3 533MHz
RAM: 256 MB SDRAM 133MHz
IDE: Castronic FB-4652 Compact Flash Drive to IDE Adapter
CF: Crucial Technologies CompactFlash 4GB (CT4GBC1)

Motherboard manual: https://d2phydb95qamfd.cloudfront.net/eol_products/docs/epia-v/user_manual/epia-v_manual_v1.2.pdf

SOLUTION:

Added the following to the /boot/loader.conf.local

hw.ata.atapi_dma="0"
hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
hw.ata.wc="0"

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