From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Dec 28 12: 3:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mailbox.univie.ac.at (mailbox.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBBDC37B41F for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:03:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from korben (mailboxts3-45.univie.ac.at [131.130.99.45]) by mailbox.univie.ac.at (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fBSK3Ar27300; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:03:11 +0100 Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:02:58 +0100 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Normalzeit?=) From: Lukas Ertl To: Brooks Davis Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some questions concerning Thinkpad T20 In-Reply-To: <20011228103945.A25465@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: le@mailbox.univie.ac.at MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 07:31:26PM +0100, Lukas Ertl wrote: > > > > *) can I get the "hotswap" feature of DVD drive and floppy drive to wor= k > > without having to reboot each time I want to change drives? (I get all > > There is some limited support for this in current via tha atacontrol > command. I'm not sure what the MFC status is. I've had reasionable I guess it isn't MFC'ed yet (I don't have an atacontrol command on 4.5-PRERELEASE.) > > *) can I get the DVD drive to run in DMA mode? Currently it only runs > > in PIO mode. > > add the following line to /boot/loader.conf: > > hw.ata.atapi_dma=3D1 > > and reboot. If the machine doesn't crash when you access the device > you're good. ;-) I'm good :-) Thanks for the tip, it works now in UDMA33. regards, le --=20 Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universit=E4t Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message