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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 2003 01:45:45 +0300
From:      Alexander Serkov <serkov@ukrpost.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Why is ATAPI DMA disabled by default ?
Message-ID:  <200308140145.45882.serkov@ukrpost.net>

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I use 5.1-current and have found that by default FreeBSD disables ATAPI's 
support for DMA transfers and thus uses CPU hungry PIO modes.
It even makes sysctl used to change this read-only.
I had changed the default value of atapi_dma to 1 in dev/ata/atapi-all.c to 1 
and it worked fine for me.
Can someone explain why it is disabled?



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