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Date:      Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:54:57 -0700
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        marius@alchemy.franken.de
Subject:   Call for testers: Apple ATA DMA
Message-ID:  <48E097E1.2060101@FreeBSD.org>
References:  48DE7C93.5050506@freebsd.org

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> I see two issues with acd(4) on sparc64, which, given that
> I don't see them with either amd64 or i386 and that there
> are no such reports for these archs, I suspect are endian-
> bugs (which might be hidden with 32-bit machines though):
> a) read-only drives are falsely reported as having write
>    capabilities in dmesg (this is a rather old bug but so
>    far this seemed to be a cosmetic problem only)
> b) DMA is broken in that file content read is wrong except
>    for "small" files; there's no data corruption when PIO
>    mode is forced (this seem to be a recurring bug once
>    again present in HEAD).
> 
> Do you guys see these problems also with powerpc?

Not sure if it's related, but burning CD image to CD-RW media doesn't 
work on my MacMini, failing with something like "invalid argument". At 
the same time, erasing the same media works just fine.

-Maxim



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